Imitation Quotes
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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.
Elena Ferrante -
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
Cennino Cennini -
The worst acting is about imitation.
Paul Guilfoyle -
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
Norm MacDonald -
Imitation is obviously a great form of flattery.
Peyton Manning -
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.
Judith Butler -
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.
Walter W. Powell
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God has not called you to be anyone else’s imitation.
Brian Houston -
You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.
Gaspar Noe -
Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
Elizabeth Bear -
I've been doing a pale imitation of Bill Murray for most of my career.
Tom Hanks -
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec