But as early as the 1870s, scientists have tried to get around those long, complex, geological processes by making their own gems. Imitation gems, known as simulants, are made of materials that only look like certain gems.Think: glass cut into the shape of a diamond.
novelist and Academy Award winner screenwriter his screenplay for the imitation game won the Academy Award and WG Award for best adapter screenplay in2015 and he was also nominated for the British Academy of film and television
Like, I was in a writing group years and years and years ago. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Whew! In any case, I talked often on the telephone with Julia, and Claudine, my daughter, ended up doing a very good imitation of Julia. I mean, terrific.And she used to do that all the time.
life in your own heart. So you have this beautiful um statement you know in the um imitation of Christ. It is so beautifully put there that the joy of a clean conscience gives more is more than the joy of any philosophy.
You're not in the business of making sandwiches, you're in the business of happiness. - If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Supreme is truly a world class kiss ass.
-The world is an infinitely better place because of you. -"The Imitation Game" in cinemas November 14.
Mark: Same raspy voice. His imitation of me, my imitation of him is identical. So we don't sound like this.
as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States. toward plant-based imitation meats and cell-grown meat and cell-grown fish products.
as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States. A move toward imitation meat products or cell-based meat products would be a wonderful win-win-win-win-win.
Not feeling good. So that sort of performance technique of turning, hey, everybody, I'm Jesse, ,, like that shift into playing the characters and the accent, that's the imitation technique. Dou is joking. So the Chinese friends know this is ,, who's probably one of the most famous Xiangsheng performers right now.
He knew a lot more about French literature, and so on, than Blunt did, and indeed was quite a confident student. In the "Imitation Spies," he's played by one of the "Downton Abbey" actors, the chauffeur in "Downton Abbey." And the lean Cairncross is played as a short, chubby figure in this.
And they were jumped by two guys. One had an imitation pistol. And it was a basic mugging scenario.
the the seed of of the stuff that I do um from from writing about Alan Turing um in the imitation game to to Edison westing house and Tesla uh and their relationship in this book um and so that's kind of that way of looking at the creation of technology and the people behind it
You're all fired. Go see "The Imitation Game." It's a great movie. Well, get the DVD.
Those of you who were alive in the 70s and 80s may remember that there were various-- well, there is still Cool Whip, these imitation whip creams and various imitation sour creams. And we looked at-- there's a recipe collection at the New York Public Library.
Thank you. And first of all, we're going to be joined by Hangout by two of the guys involved in making "The Imitation Game." I'm a little bit worried because I can't see the Hangout. Oh, there's Graham, and Teddy is there as well.
quickly learn to look where their mothers are looking so we learn before we're educated by imitation by paying attention to what others are doing right now we've got this kind of model where you've got these people in the front of the class and they say
And the imitations are good enough that you need a better way.
Can you buy cheap imitations ?
Accept no imitations . A little bit of salt.
It was basically a superficial imitation without understanding the truth of the underlying concepts.
as well. We don't know yet what's going to happen in the United States. The shoe industry came up with imitation leather.
I'm sure some of you have read accounts of the other four, perhaps also seen fictionalized portraits of the other four. You might have seen "The Imitation Game," which also has a portrait of John Cairncross, which I'll talk about a bit later. I say he's an unlikely spy.
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We've seen the film "The Imitation Game," where Keira Knightley and Benedict Cumberbatch save the world, and save Europe, and crack Enigma.
And if you put all the imitation into it, all those bad things into making it grow better or giving ,,
And it's a precise imitation of a later Herbert Bayer environment.
What I really want is imitation .
in this of these rivalries between the inventors um from my perspective one of the things that I was interested in was when I'd written imitation game we were very focused on making it kind of a mathematician story from the from the mathematician perspective so it was the whole thing we always talked about was this is Alan turing's this is Alan turing's story As Told by Alan Turing
looked at um children's imitation . And what we did was we showed them this squeaky toy. It's called a who's it. And
It's all done in imitation of professional sports.
Any of you seen "The Imitation Game," you know about this-- it's slightly mythical, actually-- this story about this strong childhood friendship he
Benedict Cumberbatch's performance in "The Imitation Game" is great.
In the case of "The Imitation Game," it's being gay when being gay is illegal in England.
So how many people have seen "Imitation Game?" right?
And he comes up with the Imitation Game-- which we now call the Turing Test-- which is, you put a machine in a room and a human in a room,
I'll call him right away. She thought it was Claudine doing her imitation of Julia. So she was good.
as the case may be-- Yoda imitations , Darth Vader impressions.
And we would just do imitations of all the characters in the movies.
Lemony: "We were doing bird imitations ", said the flutes, the shiniest and highest pitched of the woodwinds.
They have. And imitation is the best form of flattery.
And there's even a movie about it called "The Imitation Game" on the left.
And so the ability to change between characters is very important. So one of the jokes that we do that uses the imitation technique is I talk about one of the fun parts about being an American who speaks Chinese when I go back to America, because in China, there are people like me that
And there are a plethora of reasons for people to make imitation gems, some legitimate, some not.
I think of it as a mash-up of "The Imitation Game" and "The Greatest Generation," actually, because these women were the hidden figures
We've heard of that because of "The Imitation Game" and because of places like Bletchley Park that exist now as museums.
You don't-- But to do a slavish imitation doesn't serve anyone, really.
Me and my group have done a lot more imitation games since.
So, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.