Quotes About Imitation

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

I'm easy to imitate. All you need are the soft-boiled egg eyes and the bedroom voice.

I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.

Strangely enough, among my dad's things, I found the diary of an ancestor who was born in 1797 and became a ventriloquist in London. That was quite chilling. It described exactly how I was as a child but 150 years earlier - doing voices, pretending to be a ventriloquist.

When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.

I've copied a bit of what AB de Villiers does. The way I go back and across to open myself up and set myself for the shots.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

I look at some of the best players around the world and sometimes I do try and bat like them.

I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism.

Hay que tener cuidado al elegir a los enemigos porque uno termina pareciéndose a ellos.

Cuando esté muerto, copiarás a otro y luego a otro

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

The contemplation of the life thus should be undertaken as a meditation on one's own immanent divinity, not as a prelude to precise imitation, the lesson being, not "Do thus and be good," but "Know this and be God.

Another Brownell adage that Perkins subscribed to was that the worst reason for publishing anything was that it resembled something else, that however unconscious, "an imitation is always inferior.

Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics—in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.

I've learned to write by mimicking other writers. It's the way we learned to speak—reproducing sounds—and it's the way, I think, to learn how to write.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.