Daniela Vega Quotes

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.

You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

America has believed that in differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

Different is good. Different is great!

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.

The diversity of perspective, the unwillingness to generalise - those are good traits in countries as they are in art.

I don't think it's any secret that there's a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. But that, to me, is actually quite beautiful. It allows me to be fully me because there is no one else to look at and say, 'Oh, I should be more like that.'

I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.

I just want to give my fans a place to go where they can be free and nobody will judge them, because life is more interesting when you're looking at it from the outside. I don't think you need to be on the outside looking in; I think you should enjoy the outside.

I don't write the same book twice.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I want to work with anybody original.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Story is about originality, not duplication

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.