#imitate

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. ↗

— Judith Butler

#gender #imitates #imitation #kind #original

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. ↗

— Christian Slater

#boundaries #come #does #imitate #life

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ↗

— Confucius

#am #bad #correct #each #good

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

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The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#artists #imitates #immature #mature #steal

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

#became #connery #cool #doing #end

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#critical #imagination #imitates #spirit

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

#could #david #everyone #extraordinary #figure

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#am #band #bands #catch #each

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

— Adolf Hitler

#forces #great #imitate #state #strength