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