Quotes by 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. Al Pacino mimicryrealdoe 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. Daniel Day-Lewis audiomimicryhistorical Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick. Erving Polster gimmicksmimicryuse The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility. Franz Grillparzer mimicrycrowdscharacter 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. Immanuel Kant mimicrysongmen I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. Norman MacCaig mimicryinventionliterature Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry. Pat Conroy theftmimicryathlete 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. Vladimir Nabokov mimicryanxietyway
