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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position,… — Susan Griffin
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. — Russell Banks
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but… — Anne Carson
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm… — Eliza Coupe
To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of… — John Nelson Darby
I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. — Jermaine Dupri
My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. — Dan Fogelberg
I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these… — Clifton Collins, Jr.
In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following… — Goh Chok Tong
Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make… — John Climacus
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest,… — Vigen Guroian
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive… — Maximus the Confessor
The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not… — Misty Copeland
I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth. — Horace
He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name… — Horace
In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates. — Benjamin Franklin
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then… — Eric Hoffer
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then… — Andre Maurois
Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer… — Jeanette Winterson
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the… — Leonardo da Vinci
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of… — Leonardo da Vinci
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini
It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or… — Ben Shahn
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet

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