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I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it. — Matthew Norman

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. — John Grisham

The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius. — Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

When single you are," Roger said, imitating Yoda dispensing advice to Luke, "get laid you can. When married you get, make love you do. — Sean Kennedy

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

My papa halfling," he answered, imitating Oliver's thick accent. "And — R.A. Salvatore

The secret of a holy life is not in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfections of Jesus be manifested in our mortal flesh. — Oswald Chambers

When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them. — Jack Nicholson

Imitating another style is simply a sham. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. — Don Marquis

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. — Justin Timberlake

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants. — Jonathan Swift

I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason. — Franz Kafka

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. — Rob McClure

People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better. — Thomas Merton

What mental darkness, what ignorance of the truth blinds those who, though afflicted by the fear of poverty, yet take pleasure in imitating it! — Seneca.

So while you're imitating Al Capone,
I'll be Nina Simone,
And defacating on your microphone — Lauryn Hill

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi — Maryam Mafi

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl. — Billy Crystal

We are imitating Nature, who is variable; and he who imitates her cannot be blamed. — Michael A. Ledeen

Kids will use their own system at the stage that they are, they're not (learning merely by) imitating you. — Jean Berko Gleason

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself. — Brad Warner

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him. — Mary Cassatt

He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin. — Oliver Sacks

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me. — Vladimir Nabokov

Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating. — Debasish Mridha

Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture. — Joe Haldeman

You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. — Sailor Jerry

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. — Dejan Stojanovic

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. — Lou Doillon

Learn not from imitating but from emulating. — Debasish Mridha

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new. — Erroll Garner

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life. — Wendell Pierce

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper. — Mark Bernstein

Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves. — Aida Overton Walker

I have good pronunciation no matter what language I speak. Maybe it's because my specialties are rapping and imitating others — G-Dragon

Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho

You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way. — Charles De Foucauld

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you. — Jimmy Connors

The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves. — LZ Granderson

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them. — Gene Veith

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. — Gore Vidal

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. — Benjamin Franklin

After two takes you're imitating yourself. — Thelonious Monk

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

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots. — David O. Selznick

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler, — Benito Mussolini

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself. — Brandon Sanderson

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. — Frank Stella

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire

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. — Lee Trevino

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

In love, it's because people want something that doesn't exist, at least abundantly, people tend to put on false masks imitating the non-existant. — Daya Kudari

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. — Theodor Adorno

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model. — Shirin Ebadi