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Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. -- Octavia E. Butler
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. -- Mary McCarthy
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. -- George Pierce Baker
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. -- Henry Flynt
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
I am not a natural singer, but I can sing, and probably the way I sing is more imitative than from myself, which is why I am never going to be an amazing recording artist. -- Tim Blake Nelson
An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away. -- John Hockenberry
I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good. -- Ivan Reitman
Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters. -- Pankaj Mishra
John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Man is an imitative creature. -- Friedrich Schiller
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism. -- Oscar Wilde
We are to a large extent an imitative society. -- Edward R. Murrow
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character. -- Bruno Schulz
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness. -- William James
But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure. -- George Pierce Baker
Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama. -- George P. Baker
We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not. -- Dorothy Parker
Man is essentially the imitative animal. His whole educabilityand in fact the whole history of civilization depend on this trait, which his strong tendencies to rivalry, jealousy, and acquisitiveness reinforce. -- William James
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. -- Thomas Jefferson
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact. -- Andre Derain
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads. -- George Bernard Shaw
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves. -- Isadora Duncan

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