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• I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

  Chath Piersath

  Writing, Voice, Perspective

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We all are influenced by things and copy things, but often where there is a certain level of copying, only the surface value ends up being reproduced and that becomes thinner and thinner. I feel like a lot of appropriation suffers from that.

  Jason Fulford

  Suffering, Levels, Ends

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• Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Records, Logical

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

  Stephen King

  Book, Thinking, Numbers

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

  Jimi Hendrix

  Mistake, People, Sometimes

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• The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.

  James Lileks

  Lying, Machines, Earth

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• I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

  Petra Haden

  Song, Waiting, Heard

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Trying, Honour

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

  John James Audubon

  Long, Style, Failing

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.117

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• I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, Swings, People

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and they inspire me now. But at some point, you start to try to be the best you can be and you're not copying anybody else. I'm just doing it in public, and my work needs to reflect that as well.

  Johnny Marr

  People, Inspire, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference.

  Douglas Huebler

  Differences, People, Choices

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• My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Paint, My Own

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

  Robin Trower

  Thinking, People, Way

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• We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

  LeCrae

  Missing, Culture, Creator

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• If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too

  Dave Hampton

  People, Being Positive, Lifestyle

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• You cannot innovate by copying.

  Larry Ellison

  Business

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• When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Achievement, World

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

  Ferran Adria

  Done, Chef, Restaurants

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• You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Flower, Archives

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• It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

  Paul Cezanne

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• Creativity means not copying.

  Ferran Adria

  Creativity, Mean

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• What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once a movie like Paranormal Activity comes out and becomes popular - and that's a totally fine and valid movie - everyone starts copying it. Everything becomes a found-footage movie that looks like somebody shot it with their phone.

  Rob Zombie

  Horror Genre, Phones, Looks

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.

  Henry James

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

  James Hetfield

  People, Style, Knows

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