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Now life is imitating art.
I loved old movies. And I like imitating people.
The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
We need to stop imitating the West and looking there for inspiration.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.
I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground.
No one repeats a word I say without imitating my voice; it drives me out of my... mind.
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
Everyone has a different appearance, so blindly imitating fashion trends does not make you look better.
You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'
I've never really heard anybody imitating anything of mine the way they do with Edward Van Halen's stuff.
The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.
I grew up with my friends, wrestling around, imitating guys like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.
That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.
I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.
I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.
It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people.
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 try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Neymar has been an idol of mine since childhood. I've always tried to mirror myself in the way he plays, and I've also tried imitating some of his haircuts.
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.
My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
It is a great feeling when you lay down at night, and you know there are little kids out there imitating you, and people want to know what you eat and when you go to sleep.
I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and end up imitating them rather than finding their own identity.
I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.
There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear pierced and preferred loose shirts and trousers. I think I was imitating my father!
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.
I had a 'Monty Python' CD, and I would listen to it in the car on the way to school. It also refined my British accent. I can do a killer British accent because I'm just imitating 'Monty Python.'
I think I had a knack for music, but I think what I was more sort of talented at more than anything, because I don't think I'm a great singer, I think that I grew up imitating different voices that I heard.