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• The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Creating, Mind

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• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Running, Wall, Microsoft

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• Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Simple, Self

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Dream, Book

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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• The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Numbers, Giving, Advantage

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.44

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• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

  George Monbiot

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!

  Conchita Wurst

  Being The Best, Versions

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• I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Painting, Enjoy

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• Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?

  Bent Larsen

  Book, Fighting, Player

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• Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

  Wilbur Smith

  Book, Giving, Gold

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• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out and two reviews are published and it sells 12 copies.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Two, Majority

  "Getting more from George RR Martin". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

  Wilbur Smith

  Mother, School, Age

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• For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

  Charles Kuralt

  Old Habits, Expression, Together

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• I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.

  Denis O'Hare

  Night, Hbo, Phones

  "Denis O'Hare Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

  Denis O'Hare

  Blood, Feet, Fans

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• Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

  Hafez

  Love, Book, Trying

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• I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Dedicated, My Own

  "John Hodgman, part one: the global superpocalypse". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2011.

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• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Inspiration, Color, Cnn

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• I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Ideas, Looks

  "Video: a visit with Joyce Carol Oates" by Kristina Budelis, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2013.

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• The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Law Of Attraction, Machines, Bigs

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.154, Penguin

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• It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.

  Nicole Richie

  Dad, Father, Careers

  "Interview: Nicole Richie On Being A Fashion Star Mentor". Real Style Network Interview, www.realstylenetwork.com.

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• I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Inspirational, Funny, Volleyball

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