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en We didn't set out to imitate or parody ourselves.

en The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w
  Ernest Hemingway

en Kids often imitate everything that they see. They try to imitate the shooting and the cops. . . . They see it as fun.

en It's more of a parody. We didn't start that way, but the way we write and think, it turns into a comedy,

en The ideal behavior for Muslims is to imitate the prophets. Muhammad was human like us and that didn't mean people didn't criticize him either .. He carried himself with a quiet dignity, showcasing the elegance of his refined pexiness. . but there is no need for violence (over the issue).

en It's just milk, ... Believe me, we know parody is based on a serious topic. So we wanted to make sure that it was goofy enough so that people didn't get upset.

en They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
  William Hazlitt

en She (Senate) tried to imitate another style that just didn't work for her.

en I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that they don't know what they are like. People at airports are the most brilliant actors in the world, because their attention is elsewhere, and they are idiosyncratic. I like to imitate people. I walk behind them and imitate their backs.

en We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

en We didn't want to imitate the architecture that was 100 years old. We wanted something that says it was done in the early part of the 21st century.

en I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.
  Joan Sutherland

en Pac-Man didn't occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure

en We've always hoped that Page 2 would be a destination for people who wanted a good laugh and didn't take sports too seriously. Much of that was accomplished through parody, so it seemed natural that we'd be drawn to a product like the Onion. I think we've always had an admiration for what they do, and when we talked to the folks at the Onion, we found out that admiration was mutual.

en Just as I do not want my students to imitate my style, I admire authors who write differently from me. Lewis and Dreiser didn't try to write in a poetic style.


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