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• Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

  Dean Koontz

  Good Day, Average, Please Me

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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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• Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.

  David Knopfler

  Views, Wonderful, Week

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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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• My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Young

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

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• Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

  William James

  Truth, Guides, Sensible

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

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• I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

  Michael Hutchence

  Attitude, Style, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

  Billie Holiday

  Music, Real, Mean

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cloning, Made, Should

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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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• Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

  Christopher Lasch

  Knowledge, Reality, Observers

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Philosophical, Imitation

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• I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

  Richard Cobden

  Believe, Historical, Information

  Richard Cobden (1864). “Mr. Cobden and "The Times": Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. Delane, Editor of "The Times" ; with a Supplementary Correspondence Between Mr. Cobden, and the Editor of the "Daily Telegraph".”, p.10

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• I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Real, Thinking, Records

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• I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

  Rosser Reeves

  Witty, Campaigns, Just Saying

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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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• 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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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Writing, Reading Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

  Peter Straub

  Phrases, Dozen, Clumsy

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