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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. — Orlando Bloom

Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life — Maya Banks

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. — Erma Bombeck

Each day was a carbon copy of the last. You needed a bookmark to tell one from the other. — Haruki Murakami

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. — Jacques Barzun

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models. — Tamara De Lempicka

If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. — Wilson Mizner

It's better to be individual than a clone of someone else. — Fennel Hudson

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission. — Patricia Schroeder

Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy. — Janet Evanovich

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do. — Cyc Jouzy

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy. — William Shakespeare

Be the original, not the copy. — Amit Pandit

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied, — Leonard Ravenhill

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into. — Joel Osteen

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization's sadnesses. — Gustave Flaubert

The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy. — John Caples

As for developing a writing style'I would say that I tried to copy the pacing of the old movies I loved as a kid. — Kola Boof

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it. — Jimmy Page

Artists copy the pictures of those they admire, those they aspire to, acknowledged masters whose work embodies everything they hope to achieve — Frank Wynne

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy. — Caroline Corr

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. — Steve Jobs

He kept talking and I thought about taking my copy of Huckleberry Finn and stuffing it in his mouth so he'd shut up. — Elizabeth Scott

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy. — Suzy Kassem

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa — Richelle Mead

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares ... or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination. — Tony Benn

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? — Ronnie Shanks

I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other. — Nick Pageant

Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call. — Bill Walsh

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. — Theodore White

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. — Francis Arinze

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style — Cary Grant

The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I — Austin Kleon

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. — Georges Vantongerloo

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. — Michael Cera

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. — Flannery O'Connor

Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough. — Virginia Woolf

How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert

Everybody have own life don't copy anyone's life style make your own. — AbdulNasir

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. — Christopher Lasch

Copy and paste is a design error — Steve McConnell

Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me. — Kate Forsyth

People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after — Oliver Goldsmith

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch. — Hermann Broch

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young

They'll come back or they won't, Simon thought as he read the back copy on a couple of books and set them aside for himself. — Anne Bishop

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders. — Richard D. Zanuck

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy. — Bauvard

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity. — Leon Kass

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note. — Dana Perino

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes. — Henry David Thoreau

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. — Gustav Ejstes

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy. — John Caples

I can be a better me than anyone can; I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else. — Diana Ross

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. — David Bailey

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual. — George Smoot

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist. — Chad Harbach

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written. — Elaine Pagels

If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. — Jack Valenti

Never copy yourself, always copy someone else. — Pablo Picasso

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style. — Josh Lieb

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night. — Frederick Lenz

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that. — Nicole Richie

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide. — Joseph Sugarman

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens. — Steve Goodier

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships. — Paul Cezanne

If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps. — Mohith Agadi

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting. — Richard Branson

Susan had decided to sit by the pool at the hotel with a copy of a book by Alice Miller called The Drama of the Gifted Child. — Robert B. Parker

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans

Photography, when used as a representational art, is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the 'good' photograph. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on. — Gloria Estefan

You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years. — Suze Orman

I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. — Michael Gruber

Her hands closed over his cock, gripping tightly as he pressed her up against the copy machine. — Sibylla Matilde

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. — Paul Gauguin

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's. — Arthur Darvill

I have a copy of you in my brain; when you make me angry I do very bad things to you. — M.F. Moonzajer

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point. — Hafez

Competitors can never copy the you in your product. — Anonymous

Everything is copy. — Nora Ephron

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself. — Magnus Von Black

I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. — Edward Felten

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. — John Hodgman

Comprehend and copy nature — Viktor Schauberger

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that. — Kit Harington

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. — Cennino Cennini

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. — Donald Davis

It's Christmas! You just got your Hogwarts acceptance letter, a copy of Action Comics #1, and a brand new car that runs on water! — Leah Rae Miller

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

The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man... — Billie Letts

Believe the copy of this e-book you are reading — Louise Penny

Never ask an author for a free copy — Moonish Sood

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks. — Peg Bracken

something happened to you, think how helpful it would be for your loved ones left behind to have a copy of the key — Mark Gavagan

Always bear in mind how you act because children could copy your style. — Eraldo Banovac