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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 May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it's flattering when people copy you, but sometimes it gets to a breaking point.
- Feeling
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You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.
- My Own
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I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
- Memory
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I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
- Must
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
- Paper
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Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
- Early
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Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call.
- Others
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I rely on swing to get wickets, and I continue to do it that way. I have never tried to copy others.
- Demanded
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Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded to see a copy of his birth certificate.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.
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