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He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely. ↗

— Adam Young

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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The unique must be fulfilled. ↗

— Martha Graham

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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Be yourself. The world worships the original. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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