- Nov 07, 2020
Copy Quotes
What gets borrowed, and what gets missed.
These quotes include a personal keepsake, a well-worn family copy of a classic story kept on a desk for inspiration, alongside memories of writing advertising copy for very different clients. See Copying.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
- Donald Duck
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was nine years old I use to copy - not trace - the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.
- Confusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Advertising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
- Roots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Uber is just very different; there's no model to copy. It may be the reason why we've been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don't do anything conventional... And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I'm a bit of a lone wolf.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020