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Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.
An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.
If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.
To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don't think they printed too many.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.
I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
Yes, Kishore Kumar inspired me, but there was no pressure. I used to copy his style initially.
There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.
I one time hooked up with somebody off an app who gave me an autographed copy of a book he wrote.
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.
I rely on swing to get wickets, and I continue to do it that way. I have never tried to copy others.
I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.
The main problem I've always had with fashion media is that women are encouraged to copy other women.
The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
I used to copy looks from fashion ads in my mother's 'Cosmopolitan' magazines and steal her eye shadows.
After I made 'Oh Carolina' in the 1990s, the record company wanted me to copy that sound, and I refused.
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
In terms of my actual acting, I don't really like to to copy anyone or replicate anything that I've seen.
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.
I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.
Certain jazz musicians just copy what was done 100 years ago. The music won't grow if nobody takes a risk.
I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
A really fun fan moment was when a fan gave me a copy of 'Legend' that he had turned into a functional clock!