Copies Quotes - Page 5

• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  Edgar Degas

  Memories, Imagination, Transformation

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• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  Venerable Bede

  My Own, Secretary

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• An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Order, Original Art

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

  Robert Benchley

  Comedy, Patient, Hospitality

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• It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

  Jonathan Davis

  People, Annoyed, Challenges

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• Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.

  Ann Coulter

  Usa, Starting Over, Lasts

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Average, People

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• No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Hard Work, Writing

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• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

  Clarence Darrow

  Art, Book, Writing

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• I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Felt

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.26, Hudson Hills

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• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  Gary Gygax

  Real, Fire, Dragons

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• Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Parent, Relative

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• I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

  Margaret Smith

  Relationship, Tape, Lasts

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• Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

  Jim Henson

  Character, Information, Articles

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• There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

  Caroline Corr

  Particular

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interviewwith Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May, 2005.

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• In 1983 I'd had a number one. I'd sold 6 million copies of Total Eclipse Of The Heart all over the world.

  Bonnie Tyler

  Heart, Numbers, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

  Jung Chang

  Book, Chinese, Taiwan

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• When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Book, Beer

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• I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Aggravation, Fleas, Flea Markets

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• It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

  John Carmack

  Nice, Games, Millions

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• We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

  Lauryn Hill

  Creator

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

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• Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

  Billy Graham

  Sex, Pages, Facts

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2015

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• To copy is to invite disaster.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Risk, Management, Disaster

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• Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

  Richard Steele

  Simplicity, Imitation, Hardest

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Guardian: With a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Preface by the Rev. Rob. Lynam”, p.63

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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