Quotes About Imitation

What I call a mimetic crisis is a situation of conflict so intense that on both sides people act the same way and talk the same way even though, or because, they are more and more hostile to each other.

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

Reproducing nature slavishly is not art.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

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After you've found your voice," Collins continued, "you realize there's only one person to imitate and that's yourself … This allows you to be authentic. That's one of the paradoxes of the writing life, that the way to originality is through imitation.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Pontiero cogió una silla, la colocó al revés y se sentó a la izquierda, con las manos en el respaldo. Dicanti tomó nota mental de recordarle que dejara de imitar las películas de Humphrey Bogart. El vice ispettore había visto El halcón maltés unas trescientas veces.

Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian. DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.

Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?" "Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.

They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.

Like Ekalaiva, I learnt a lot watching my father from afar. Though I did imitate him initially, I soon changed tack. When people have already watched and enjoyed M. R. Radha on screen, why would they need another?

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

There's been a lot of successful shows like 'This Is Us,' 'Atlanta,' and 'Insecure,' so, I feel like whenever something works, Hollywood wants to copy it.

Ananya is a very happy soul, who won't get bogged down by insecurities. I have told her to not imitate anyone.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.

Not many performers are equally at home in drama and comedy; Claudette Colbert was one of those few. It's hard to decide whether she was more brilliant in screwball comedies like It Happened One Night, The Palm Beach Story and Midnight, or tragedies like Imitation of Life and So Proudly We Hail! The most modern of actresses, she was also one of the most talented.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Programming is modelisation of real life.

Ya no es la publicidad la que imita a la vida, es la vida la que copia la publicidad. Cadillacs de color rosa con los bajos iluminados