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Imitations only better the original. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations. -- Vaughn Monroe
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years. -- Gilbert Gottfried
I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations. -- Tom Shales
Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there. -- Catherine McCormack
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely. -- Marian Keyes
There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love. -- Bill Medley
Going to a grammar school, you mixed with all sorts of different types and I used to listen to how they talked. When I did my imitations, I could sound like someone really rough, or I could sound like a cabinet minister. -- Steve Coogan
Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale imitations of the originals. One exception is Australian Riesling, delicious, dry wines meant to be consumed in their first two years of life. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own. -- Bat for Lashes
In literature imitations do not imitate. -- Mark Twain
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. -- Suzy Kassem
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature -- Coco Chanel
Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration. -- Delano Johnson
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. -- Henry David Thoreau
God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won't give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations. -- Max Lucado
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women -- Naomi Wolf
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The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov
When I'm alone in my apartment, I open my Garage Band and just, you know, record these weird imitations of celebrities - Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson; everybody! -- Charice Pempengco
Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine. -- Brooks Atkinson
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality. -- Gabrielle Roth

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