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They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.
David O. Selznick
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David O. Selznick
American
Producer
Born:
May 10
,
1902
Died:
Jun 22
,
1965
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For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
Max Lucado
Compassion
Church
Thought
Nothing
Believe
Imitating
Physical
More
Support
Gospel
Verbal
Demonstration
Years
Articulate
Expression
Now
Assignment
Jesus
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.
Plutarch
Good
Enemies
Endeavor
Carefully
Imitating
Our
Faulty
Those
Good Qualities
Excel
Excellent
Observe
Qualities
Wherein
Them
Us
Avoiding
Let Us
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Bil Keane
Art
Myself
Day
Homework
Imitating
Draw
Cartoonists
Never
Studied
Instead
New
Doing
Yorker
Taught
New Yorker
Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.
Allen Ginsberg
Music
Musicians
Black
Breath
Imitating
Back
Black Music
Horns
Brought
Through
Developing
Always
Passed
Were
As Far As
Rhythms
Far
Ear
Speech
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Best
Great
Family
Young
Mario
Others
Imitating
Records
Tenor
Like
Sing
Learn
His
Very
Trying
Used
Play
Started
You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.
Beverly Sills
You
Think
Imitate
Otherwise
Imitating
Our
Alike
Vocal
Vocal Cords
Faces
Constructed
Sound
Anybody
Should
Teach
Ever
Differently
Cords
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
Bjork
Death
Great
Me
Girl
Somebody
Own
Young
Lesson
Imitating
Saw
Way
Bore
Follow
Following
About
Rather
More
Instinct
Instincts
Supports
Feminists
Than
Any
Young Girls
I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.
Charles Kuralt
Love
Good
You
Language
Imitate
Imitating
Tell
Exactly
Could
Writer
Am
Falling
Falling In Love
Trying
Which
Rhythms
Plagiarism
A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
Christopher Lloyd
You
Yourself
People
Stumble
Thinking
Other
Imitating
Relationships
Ways
Characters
About
Putting
Another
Always
Least
Opposite
Lot
Just
Then
Worked
Much
Really
Your
Things
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.
Constantin Brancusi
Impossible
Imitating
Surface
Real
Essence
Essentially
Anyone
Form
Anything
Express
Things
Exterior
External
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