#imitation

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. ↗

— Catherine McCormack

#bad #britain #desperate #film #film industry

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#learning #limitations #never #our #powers

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ↗

— John Morley

#character #climb #his #limitations #man

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#bound #clause #constitution #enforce #enforcement

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#better #fathers #good #imitation #must

I think it's important to know your limitations too. ↗

— Kip Winger

#i think #important #know #limitations #think

The new limitations are the human ones of perception. ↗

— Milton Babbitt

#limitations #new #ones #perception

I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations. ↗