#imitating

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #catch #fiction #good #great

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#closely #earned #i #imitate #imitating

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#imitating #imitations #literature #literature-quotes #loitering

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

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. ↗

— Bil Keane

#cartoonists #day #doing #draw #homework

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#agency #another #brand #built #campaign

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

#carefully #endeavor #excel #excellent #faulty

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#imitating #shots #stealing