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• I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

  Mia Kirshner

  Magazines, Saws, Unusual

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• The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Genius, Way, Stealing

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• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Kids

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• Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

  Moses Hadas

  Witty, Clever, Humorous

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• I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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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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• No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

  Missy Elliot

  Hot, Want, Feels

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• My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Young

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

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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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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• When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school.

  Jensen Ackles

  School, Pajamas, Middle

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• No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.

  Richard Heber

  Book, Gentleman, Three

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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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• 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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• It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

  Maurice Wilkins

  Life, Science, Growth

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• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Life, America

  "Company Manners: A Cultural Inquiry into American Life". Book by Louis Kronenberger. Chapter: "The Spirit of the Age", p. 18, 1954.

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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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• Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Inspiration, Artist, Lord

  "Living thoughts: inspiration, insight, and wisdom from sources throughout the ages" by Bernard S. Raskas, (p. 22), 1976.

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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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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Imitation

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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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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• 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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• There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

  Berenice Abbott

  Inspirational, Teacher, Ruins

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