#imitate

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

— Oscar Wilde

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Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. ↗

— Bruce Willis

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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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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

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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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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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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