Mimicry Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave.
— Diablo Cody
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What interests me when I’m writing is being able to crawl into a character’s head and speak from his or her mouth. It’s not pulling…
— Nathan Englander
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How…
— Frank Rich
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Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And…
— Euripides
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
— Norman MacCaig
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a…
— Al Pacino
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It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds…
— Lawren Harris
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
— Oscar Wilde
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
— Andre Gide
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Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Mimicry Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Mimicry Quotes as follows: