#imitate

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They can only imitate but never create. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#create #imitate #inspirational #youth #inspirational

I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone. ↗

— Dom DeLuise

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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#bad #beyond #comes #goes #good

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will. ↗

— Allan Sherman

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Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

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Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. ↗

— Woody Allen

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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