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And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Lucian Freud

Artist, Next, Interest

Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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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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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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My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

Jerry Goldsmith

Wife, Albums, Vaults

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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Theodore White

Editors, Two, Kind

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When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

Diane Lane

Feelings, Young, Presses

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I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

Years, Special, Serious

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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Reynolds Price

Artist, Age, World

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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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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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I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth David

Trying, Recipes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Bill Monroe

Want, Determined, My Own

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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

"The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 11, 1994.

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None but blockheads copy each other.

William Blake

Art, Philosophy, History

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

Drawing, Lasts, Firsts

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Pablo Picasso

Success, Dangerous, Cubism

Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Jana Novotna

Sports, Play, Tennis

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