Mimicry quotes
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect."
"Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale."
"Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry."
"Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument."
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