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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?

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To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

Our limitations and success will be based most often on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon the body acts upon.

The mask can be a limitation but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

I know what my limitations are as an actor but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it or when I have to carry it on personality.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything what science cannot know cannot be real.

I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

I know my limitations and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts poetry cleanses.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Plot rules nor even poetry are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature of character of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate because it defines our limitations.

Men must know their limitations.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

There is only one kind of love but there are a thousand imitations.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.