#imitate

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. ↗

— Quintilian

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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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

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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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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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