#imitate

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

#great #her #herself #i #imitate

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#early #enough #i #imitate #me

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#imitate #nothing #produce #those #want

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#copy #heard #i #imitated #mistakes

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#being #defined #female #human #human being

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it. ↗

— Shane West

#became #connery #cool #doing #end

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#critical #imagination #imitates #spirit

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

— Bruce Willis

#combination #elements #imitates #life #sometimes