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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
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
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
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
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better.
— Thomas Merton
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
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
Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Learn not from imitating but from emulating.
— Debasish Mridha
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
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
There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
— Benjamin Franklin
After two takes you're imitating yourself.
— Thelonious Monk
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
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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
