Quotes About Imitation

When you train with good players or watch matches on TV, you want to do what they do.

If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor.

'Gilmore Girls' was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can't watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.

That's the saddest part about fiction shows. If one show works, there would be six other made on similar lines.

Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

Imitation is the sincerest form of pain.

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to be copying it. This happens whether you do movies, paintings or music.

You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

The essence of being in God's image is our ability, like God, to stop. We imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

In his critique of reason, Nietzsche accomplished nothing less than the proof that all cognition is local in character and that, in imitating the divine eye, no human observer is able to go as far as really transcending his own location.

El marketing 5.0, por definición, es la aplicación de tecnologías que imitan al ser humano para crear, comunicar, ofrecer y mejorar el valor a lo largo del recorrido del cliente.

He smiled faintly, like somebody who had never seen a smile, but had read a book on how to do it.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

Colonization" exists when the colonized has valuable natural resources that are used to enrich the colonizer, but not the colonized: when the colonized does the colonizer's work, but earns little of the colonizer's money; when the colonized try to imitate or please the colonizer, and truly believe that the colonizer is, by nature, superior/inferior, and that the colonized cannot exist without her colonizer.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

You cannot own a symphony or a novel in the way you can own a Damien Hirst. As a result there are far fewer fake symphonies or fake novels than there are fake works of visual art.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

A lot of people who make films in my generation have the vocabulary of all the films they've seen before.

You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.