Billie Eilish Quotes

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Thing is - I'm easily imitated, never duplicated.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.