Copies Quotes

• Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Style

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• 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

  Clothes, Lucky, Realizing

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• Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

  Don Henley

  Eight, Albums, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Mind, Copying, Looks

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• The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Important, Helping, Function

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• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.

  Brian Setzer

  Stupid, Voice, Dumb

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• History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Fake People, Reality, History

  "The Old Regime and the Revolution". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 88, 1856.

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• If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

  Bill Walsh

  Errors, Phones, Editing

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• A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

  Rebecca West

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

  Gerry Beckley

  Names, People, Firsts

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

  Edward Felten

  Thinking, Problem, Protection

  "Sony fix for glitch has glitch / Security problem could take turn for the worse" by Hiawatha Bray, www.sfgate.com. December 8, 2005.

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• If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 28, 2016

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• You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Research, Littles, Lists

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• I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Doors, Stories

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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• To copy faults is want of sense.

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Faults

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems”, p.19

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

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Editors, Wake Up

  "Copy Desk: Don Podesta and Bill Walsh". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 16, 2005.

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• If you copy then it is not self-expression.

  Michael Schenker

  Self, Expression, Ifs

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• I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Gallery, Soothing, Prose

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• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  Natalie Wood

  Wanted

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• We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

  Thom Gunn

  Book, Generations, Wordsworth

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• To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.

  John Mortimer

  Hate, England, Hats

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

  Patricia Schroeder

  Permission, Copyright, Has Beens

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• My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

  Robert Plant

  Style, Today, Zeppelins

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• Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

  Vladimir Putin

  Second Chance, Russia, Roots

  "Russia after Yeltsin". Book by Vladimir M. Tikhomirov, 2001.

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