#imitate

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. ↗

— Bruce Willis

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

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Washington's entire honesty of mind and his fearless look into the face of all facts are qualities which can never go out of fashion and which we should all do well to imitate. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works. ↗

— William Penn

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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

— James A. Baldwin

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. ↗

— Stendhal

#distance #fifty #french #imitate #russians

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

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