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• The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.

  Leigh Hunt

  Running, Laughter, Drama

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• Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

  Juvenal

  Children, Powerful, Reason

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• It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Children, Book

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• Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down.

  Margot Livesey

  People, Stopping, Looks

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• We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet-- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock--open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it-- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.

  Steve Jobs

  Believe, Player, Cds

  As quoted in "Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview" in Rolling Stone, December 3, 2003.

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• He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

  Jeremy Collier

  Together, Would Be, Painting

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.74

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• I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Japan, People

  "NBC White Paper (If Japan Can... Why Can't We?)". TV Series, June 24, 1980.

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• Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have to pay to publish this myself, and I think a lot about about putting out fifty copies. I used to think about hogwash like my legacy and silly things like that. But I feel like if I never have another book out, I've done okay, I've had like twelve or thirteen little books, and I won't be upset about this on my death bed.

  Richard Meltzer

  Silly, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

  Bruce Barton

  Successful, Sides, Advertising

  "The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators". Book by Stephen R. Fox, 1984.

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• Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Believe, Character

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.249, Penguin

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  Madame de Stael

  Two, Diversity, Mind

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• In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Cat, Different, Littles

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.56, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

  "Anacalypsis". Book by Godfrey Higgins, p. 787, 1833.

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• Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

  Tom Ford

  Bankers, Banking, Should

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• [Columbia House] magazines were how I found out about the punk world going on in New York. Because of what I read, at the age of 15, I hounded the local record store to order a copy of Horses [1975] for me by Patti Smith.

  Michael Stipe

  Horse, New York, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

  Pharrell Williams

  Missing, Inspire, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Average, Play

  Guitar Player, Volume 7, 1973.

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• I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Lying, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
  For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
  Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Ephemeral, Tablets

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair.

  Jay Leno

  Girl, Daughter, Dad

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• Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it.
  I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.

  Clive Barker

  Unique, Simple, Ideas

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• He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
  He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
  the ball. I just like watching him hit.

  Jorge Posada

  Real, Swings, Balance

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• Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Done, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

  Dick Cavett

  Boys, Water, Wife

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.86, Macmillan

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