I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that.
Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J. D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.