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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. Gus Van Sant

You Try Own Still Shot Your Even Film Copy

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops. Hari Kunzru

Life Beautiful Addicted Secondhand Unlikely Books Nelson Some Read Because Lord Grandmother Binding Ever Copy Kept

The way I write is, I listen to things in my head, and then I copy them down. I memorize conversations and things like that; I seem to be able to do that pretty well. I suppose in that respect there's some improvisation, although I work over the stuff after I've got it down on paper. Harvey Pekar

Work Respect Down Way Paper Memorize Able Some Pretty Seem Write Head Stuff Over Suppose Like Well Although Got Improvisation Listen After Conversations Them Then Things Copy

So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms. Henry Moore

More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. Henry Rollins

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If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket? Howard Jacobson

Art Power Doubt Back Carrying Pocket No-One Come How Been His Person Literature Mugged Ever Copy

Right from the 17th century, composers who have taken up music as their means of livelihood went through a hard time financially. They were paid only for commissioned works and public performances. And, when their music became famous, orchestras in other cities and countries would pay a small amount to copy the music. Ilaiyaraaja

Music Time Pay Other Cities Financially Would Composers Only Small Through Taken Performance Countries Became Were Up Commissioned Orchestra Famous Public Century Means Paid Hard Who Works Hard Time Livelihood Right Amount Copy

I loved modeling. I absolutely loved it. I was so happy to get the cover of 'Vogue' - 23 times. I keep each copy. I made more money as a model than as an actress or as a filmmaker. In monetary terms, beauty pays more than anything. Isabella Rossellini

Happy Money Made Beauty More Vogue More Than Anything Absolutely Terms Cover Times Than Model Modeling Get Anything Loved Pays Each Keep Actress Monetary Copy Filmmaker

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. J. G. Ballard

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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. Jacques Lipchitz

Work Nature You Our Our Lord Lord Artist Interpret Copy

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! Jaime Hernandez

When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing for very different principles, and I could see which side was going to represent me. James Carville

I would say the main thing is, don't just copy yourself, which is what a lot of sequels do. And in some cases, it works. Like James Bond movies. But James Bond is a different type of character. James Gunn

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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it. Jamie Johnson

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised. Jane Lindskold

Important Too Rarely Editors Praised Very Copy

An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend. Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Now it's hard to pick up any copy of 'Wired' that doesn't mention YouTube. Jawed Karim

YouTube Mention Wired Pick Up Any Hard Now Copy

People often think that reporters write their own headlines. In fact, they almost never do. The people who do write headlines are the copy editors who are the front and last lines of quality-checking in a newspaper before it goes to print. Jennifer Lee

When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas. Jennifer Lee

Good Food Freedom Country Good Ideas Nerve Entire Take Vendors Ideas Off American Hits Dish Really Across Palate Copy

There's still a place for someone to come up with a strong headline, some copy in a commercial that's well written. I'm not saying it was better in the old days; it's just a totally different way of communicating. Jerry Della Femina

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I have very talented art directors in my agency who start out telling me, 'Well, this is what the picture is... ' I ask, 'Well, what's the headline?' and they say, 'We haven't done that yet, but it looks this way.' But I'm still writing copy, almost every day. Jerry Della Femina

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