"In Hollywood, imitation is the most profitable form of flattery. That is the only plausible explanation..."

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Source : "'101 Dalmatians': A Little Spotty" by Desson Howe, www.washingtonpost.com. November 27, 1996.

Desson Thomson

#Hollywood Quotes #Flattery Quotes #Imitation Quotes

“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.”
“It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.”

Source : "Goodbye Sam Cooke, Hello James Hunter". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 10, 2016.
“Once you find your lane, you can't cruise; When you define the game, you can't lose.”
“There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.”
“All true education is the drawing out from the student what is already there. Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember. All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.”
“A woman who has style doesn't necessarily need designers - designer wear. A woman who has style can put on any frock or dress or pant or whatever and still bring something to it.”

Source : "Model Remembers Oscar De La Renta As An 'Extraordinary Gentleman'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 21, 2014.
“Women encourage killers. They do it by falling in love with warriors and heroes. Men know it and respond with enthusiasm. The Crusaders marched off to war with ladies favors in their helmets. The heroes sliced up adults and baked infants on spits, all the while thinking of how the damsels back home would admire their bravery.”

Source : Howard Bloom (2013). “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church I grew up in. And some of the things they did I rejected, because I could see that it was a manipulation and an exaggeration. My struggle is never to fool folks; to keep it authentic - who we are and who we are becoming - rather than to mimic or to translate what others do into my own terms.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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