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Tag Name "Imitate" (272)

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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
William Morris Hunt
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.
William Shakespeare
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Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.
Joan Crawford
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Then imitate the action of the tiger stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
William Shakespeare
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Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.
Ben Lee
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Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't spring full-blown as Bach or Picasso they needed models. This is especially true of writing.
William Zinsser
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Many imitate limits, not unlimited potentials.
Akiane Kramarik
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My style is unique and it's my own. I do not try to copy or imitate anybody.
Alexander Ovechkin
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If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
Yogi Berra
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
Abbey Lincoln
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In college, I went to school for acting we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
Eliza Coupe
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The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
David Salle
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal
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Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.
Sergio Leone
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Observe, don't imitate.
John M. Ford
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The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Imitate, assimilate & innovate.
Clark Terry
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To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer, she whispered then, a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me.
Rob Lowe
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Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?
Woody Allen
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One good way to start writing poetry is to read all kinds of poetry: not just in order to imitate but to fill up your head with it, to absorb it, to make poetry an essential part of how you view the world.
Valerie Worth
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Blessed are those who imitate us for they shall inherit our faults.
Jacinto Benavente
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Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
Epictetus
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