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I listened to a lot of records. I smoked quite a few cigarettes and that - the smoking - stayed with me unfortunately! And I copied his voice in much the same way as I would learn an accent. With a lot of work, I got it. I found Jim`s voice. Whenever people see me singing, it`s really me singing. It`s live. Oliver (Oliver Stone) was counting a lot on the spontaneity and the authenticity, especially in the concert scenes. Everything was prerecorded just in case but I ended up performing it all live. It is all a thing of imagination and one can have the tendency to underestimate it. Physically, I enjoyed myself a lot when I had to gain weight to incarnate Jim Morrison at the end of his life. When he is in a stupor, intoxicated by alcohol and drugs, he resembles Karl Marx. The make-up artists took Polaroids and showed them to the Doors guitarist and to Alain Ronay to get their approval. They were amazed by the resemblance and that helped me a lot. - On becoming Jim Morrison for The Doors (1991).

- Val Kilmer

My muse is a tiny, fairy-like creature from Gnardgnanesh: a country that only exists if you wish it to. He`s about 4 inches tall, greenish, and resembles a little twig.

- Thomas Lennon

Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.

- David Lindsay

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

- Ernest Shackleton

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

- Alex Cunningham

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

- Allan Gurganus

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

- Allan Reid

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

- Allen Hornthal

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

- Amanya Mushega

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

- Amy Shaw
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(Like the mighty Wall Street Journal`s WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it`s a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they`re Racing Form readers.) The average person bets $125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets $500.

- Barbara Karn

"Angélique has been an important part of my life and everything that that ties me to her still moves me. Even 30 years later. Maybe she resembles me too much, or maybe I put too much passion into my interpretation. I don`t know...and yet, I have played in many other movies but everywhere I go, people don`t speak of my career, they only speak of Angélique."

- Michèle Mercier