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«If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.»
Author: Billie Holiday | About: Music | Keywords: alike, copy, copying, on earth, working
«[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.»
«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
«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. . . .»
«Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.»
Author: Wilson Mizner | Keywords: copy, plagiarism, research
«Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: artists, copy, copying, steal
«And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing»
Author: Scott Adams (Cartoonist) | About: Internet, Technology | Keywords: copy, hard copy, surf, surfing
«American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm»
«Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.»
«If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.»

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