Louise Brown Quotes

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Don't imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal.

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual.

Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

I am not at all stylish. For me, style is a state of mind and individuality.

I have my own thing going on; I don't want to imitate anyone else.

I'm not just cookie-cutter. You always see something different.

The thing that I tell young people is everybody is unique in their approach to the music, and you have to protect that.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.