I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
I'll be honest. We copied everyone... the Beatles, the Bachelors. It was the only way people would even listen to you.
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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.
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me.
I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
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