Imitation Quotes
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The Conquest is not a film about Nicolas Sarkozy - it's a film about political conquest. It's a Shakespearean expression, where we have all the elements of a drama, both political and personal at the same time. The decors and the costumes are all based on real photos - I wanted to be as close to reality as possible. Nicola Piovani's theatrical music gives a distance that's almost Chaplinesque, there's something quite funny. There's no imitation, no caricature, no parodie - it's realism with a distance where the dialogues are often quite funny.
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This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
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By this point I was eager to emulate Guleed and merge unobtrusively with the imitation French farmhouse fittet cupboard and counter unit behind me.
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The worst acting is about imitation.
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Imitation is criticism.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
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Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
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I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others.
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Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.
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I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
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When inspiration dies, imitation thrives.
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
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The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years.
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Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
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Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I hold the imitation of colour to be the greatest difficulty of art.
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The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
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I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
