#imitate

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

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

— Adolf Hitler

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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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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

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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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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

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The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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If one keeps on adapting, their contribution will be limited. They can only imitate but never create. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

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