Quotes About Mimicry

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

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

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

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

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

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

I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating cartoon voices like Scooby Doo, Boo Boo and others.

I've been a fan of accents my whole life. I love trying to parrot or mimic voices that I hear every day, whether it's a geographical accent or just somebody with a funny voice who sells you your newspaper and your cigarettes.

Cuando esté muerto, copiarás a otro y luego a otro

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Even those virtues which nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

To take some obvious examples: the territorial calls of birds are reproduced in automobile horn blowing, their alarm calls are reproduced in police sirens and their pleasure calls in the beach-side radio.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.

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The call of the yellow-billed cuckoo of North America is often mistaken for a bloodhound drinking a bowl of milk. He goes coulp coulp coulp.

È qui la differenza con gli altri mammiferi: mentre nei placentati è il cucciolo che deve suggere il latte, il neonato marsupiale di questa pompa muscolare non ha affatto bisogno. E, guarda caso, è proprio per evoluzione di quei muscoli che noi placentati sviluppiamo una mimica facciale. Quella che, come insegnava Darwin, consente l'espressione delle emozioni.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Aristotle, who believed that we become like the object of our contemplation.

Lyndon was his father's shadow and replica.

He has the exact Crawford colouring.' 'Egg mimicry,' said Lymond.