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Copy Quotes

We started to notice that whatever we did the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter. We went to America and had huge success, then the Stones went to America. We did Sergeant Pepper and the Stones did a psychedelic album. There was a lot of that.

– Paul McCartney

It’s one thing to buy a copy of ‘Atlas Shrugged.’ You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

– Henry Rollins

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

– Jean Cocteau

Some books I’ve kept because the binding is beautiful – I’m unlikely ever to read my grandmother’s copy of ‘The Life of Lord Nelson.’ I’m addicted to secondhand bookshops.

– Hari Kunzru

Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised.

– Jane Lindskold

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

– Jimi Hendrix

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

– Bill Gates

Writers’ bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor’s early wake-up call.

– Bill Walsh

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it’s an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.

– Bill Walsh

There’s an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

– Bruce Schneier

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

– Christopher Lasch

Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.

– Bill Walsh

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

– Anatole France

I don’t copy recipes without trying them out. I don’t reprint without trying them again.

– Elizabeth David

Traditional copyright has been that you can’t make a full copy of somebody’s work without their permission.

– Patricia Schroeder

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

– Natalie Wood

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I’m making drawings, and I’m not trying to make them with the shading.

– Ellsworth Kelly

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

We don’t actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don’t know exactly when it was written.

– Elaine Pagels

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

– Caroline Corr

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

– Pablo Picasso

I’ve earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways – as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

– Chad Harbach

You can’t really copy what I do because I don’t do anything.

– David Bailey

‘Girls’ is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don’t think the viewership is huge.

– Mike White

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

– Michael Schenker

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

– Michael Cera

I’m not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn’t seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I’m amazed that they still do that.

– Cliff Martinez

I can’t write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I’m good for.

– Charles Saatchi

I can’t copy nature.

– Elsa Peretti

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can’t. It’s still your own film.

– Gus Van Sant

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