#imitate

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it. ↗

— Shane West

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Woody Allen

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No doubt these rocky islands have suggested the idea worked out in gardens, and they have been well imitated. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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