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My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with ‘The Waste Land,’ I opened their copy of ‘Ulysses.’ The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. John Updike
I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies’ handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet. Miguel Syjuco
I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they’re going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it’s very important to me to stay true to that. Victoria Beckham
You must be one of the few people with a copy of that. I don’t think they printed too many. Chow Yun-Fat
Yes, Kishore Kumar inspired me, but there was no pressure. I used to copy his style initially. Kumar Sanu
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics’ heads, where they are safe. Emo Philips
I enjoy punk, the attitude as well as the music, but I don’t feel like I have to be a carbon copy of it and invite all this controversy just to be punk rock. Hayley Williams
Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. Kylian Mbappe
Don’t copy another writer’s style, because that is not authentic, and that’s how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don’t impose something artificial. Douglas Brunt
Changes… can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it – it will reassemble in the same form. William S. Burroughs
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model. Lucian Freud
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny. Twiggy
What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies – or at least filch your mother’s copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available. Rachel Simmons
I go to the lab and in order to interact with my postdoctoral students and try to see if I can shape them to not copy but to ask questions and to think. We have to have a little dialogue because you don’t pretend to be the fountain of all wisdom. John B. Goodenough
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results. Tony Robbins
One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you. John Carpenter
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist’s work and download it free is stealing. It’s hard work writing and recording music, and it’s morally wrong to steal it. Gary Wright
People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t make it Google. Evan Spiegel
I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there’s only one Chael Sonnen. Chael Sonnen
Sometimes it’s flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point. Billie Eilish
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. Pablo Picasso
I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don’t want to be a copy of anyone. Gerhard Schroder
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn’t work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They’re relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. Tim Burton
Traditional copyright has been that you can’t make a full copy of somebody’s work without their permission. Patricia Schroeder
I’ve never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style. Liam Aiken
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. Mark Zuckerberg
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
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. William Blake
You can learn from others but you have to be yourself. You can’t start out with the idea that you have to copy others, you have to play to your strengths. Angelos Postecoglou
There’s no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It’s free. Uday Kotak
Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model – a superhero, if you like – who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle – then they would be motivated to move more. Magnus Scheving
There are a lot of players when I watch them playing I say, ‘Amazing, I want to do like them.’ But not to be like them – just some parts to copy. But always be myself and always play my own style. Joshua Kimmich
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one’s memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. Edgar Degas
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. Jack Ma
The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar. John Rzeznik
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy. W. Edwards Deming
Unless someone wants to look funny, I’ll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I’m thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective. Virat Kohli
I’ve always avoided publicity. I’ve never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don’t strive for it, because I don’t think it’s important whether I’m good copy or not. The two can go together, if that’s your personality, but every person on this earth is unique. Chuck Noll
My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of ‘The Violation’ by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women. J. G. Ballard
If you’re ever bcc’d, do not go near ‘reply all.’ ‘Bcc’ is ‘blind carbon copy.’ It means you’re a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it’s beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It’s like screaming, ‘I’m a spy!’ Faith Salie
I’ve got a song on One Direction’s album called ‘Tell Me A Lie’. It’s a really cute song – I love it. I loved that they liked it. They sound really great on it. I already have it – I’m so VIP with my copy on my computer! It does sound really good. Kelly Clarkson
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn’t want to copy anybody. Bill Monroe
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you’ve done in your life and write about that. Jackie Collins
At one point, I recognized that Warren Buffett, though he had every advantage in learning from Ben Graham, did not copy Ben Graham but, rather, set out on his own path and ran money his way, by his own rules… I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor. Michael Burry
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ when I left high school, which has always been very special to me – it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I’m also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions. Samantha Shannon
I would say just start writing. You’ve got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me – he didn’t have a sense of humor. I don’t know anything he’s written that’s funny. Elmore Leonard
You should keep a copy of your tax return indefinitely, but you need to save supporting documents for only three years. Suze Orman
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
Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost. Steve Jobs
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. LeVar Burton
It’s not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing. Abhinav Bindra
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Charles Churchill
The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. Louis Kronenberger
Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product. David Ogilvy
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
Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else! Conchita Wurst
I don’t try to copy anyone but I like to learn from people. Phil Foden
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. Venerable Bede
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. David Ogilvy
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it. Georgia O’Keeffe
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. Paul Rand
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody. Elvis Presley
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it’s wonderful. Theodore White
So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms. Henry Moore
If you have a business idea that’s extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem. Peter Thiel
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
When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world. Ludovico Einaudi
I think I was always so resistant to coloring my hair because, you know, when my dad was still alive, it’s so easy for a second- or third-generation wrestler to just copy their predecessor. The hardest thing you can do is try and carve out your own legacy. Cody Rhodes
I became a copy boy. Not for long. I started writing stories. Jimmy Breslin
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
I put the copy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the ‘Christmas Spirits.’ I plan to read it to my grandson. Whitley Strieber
Keep your mind open about what you want to do and be true to yourself. So many people are governed by what’s ‘in’ or copy something that someone else has done. Matthew Bourne
My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide. Michael Cera
Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot. John Kennedy
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. William Godwin
Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela’s. I’ve made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits. Gary Paulsen
We call ourselves creators and we just copy. Lauryn Hill
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Oliver Goldsmith
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
If you copy then it is not self-expression. Michael Schenker
Good artists copy, great artists steal. Pablo Picasso
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
I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents. Elton John
You got to be able to reinvent yourself and come up with new ideas because everybody is going to try to copy, which is what you want. You want people to start saying what you say. Gunna
I can’t copy nature. Elsa Peretti
At a meet and greet in a nightclub in Texas, a girl who looked about 15 years old gave me a VHS copy of ‘Adventures in Babysitting,’ and she whispered in my ear that it’s really just home movie footage of her dad practicing judo. Katya Zamolodchikova
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample. Rebecca West
Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful – I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! Jaime Hernandez
‘Dead Poets Society’ was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue writing poetry and we talked a lot about our favourite poets. My wrap present from Robin was a beautiful limited edition copy of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ and that’s a great memory for me. Dante Basco
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
If you didn’t have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can’t copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way. James Dyson
Don’t try to copy me. Don’t try to copy any swing out there. Just swing your swing. Do what you can do. That’s the best thing for yourself. Jon Rahm
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‘Sports Illustrated.’ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‘Can Lou Do It?’ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage. Lou Holtz
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but… it is flattering and of course challenging. Jonathan Davis
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the ’50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I’ve always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I’d just copy them. Not very pretty. Brittany Snow
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. Amanda Burton