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I was probably a bit of a mimic when I was a kid, and I used to imitate people. Mia Wasikowska

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

Bob Livingston

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

Morgan Brittany

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Joan Sutherland

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating.

Beverly Sills

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Julius Wellhausen

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

D. B. Sweeney

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

Orhan Pamuk

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Christian Slater

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

Jeff Garlin

He's a guy's guy, so it pretty much became like the impressions - don't imitate Sean Connery's voice, and things like that. We were all kind of doing it towards the end of the film, anyway, and he was cool with it.

Shane West

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Kevin Spacey

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis de Sade

Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.

Yuri Lowenthal

'American Idol' is sometimes lumped with reality shows and it has that element - folks-next-door battling it out in a contest. But instead of fighting leeches, bugs, parasites and each other, as on CBS's 'Survivor' and other shows that imitate it, the 'American Idol' contestants, of course, sing.

Tom Shales

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Quintilian

I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.

Marcello Giordani

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Igor Stravinsky

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

John Burroughs

It's really cool to see how many people try to imitate me or wear my stuff. I get a lot of Instagram videos of people doing my entrance. I think that's so cool. To see the variety of people, little girls, guys, doing it. I never really thought that would happen. It's amazing.

Sasha Banks

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Cecil Taylor

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Allan Sherman

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

John Ruskin

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin

I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the colors you feel, and sometimes they are fake colors. But always it's to show one emotion.

Pedro Almodovar

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.

Leo Kottke

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Adolf Hitler

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

Athanasius

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Jane Levy

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

William Penn