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“I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.”

Firsts War Kids America Actors Strange Soldier Impression Accents Exotic Captivating First Impression American Soldier

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“For me the information has to remain incredibly neutral. It's what I would call 'ice-like' information. I receive very rapid impressions. I don't have to sit there and concentrate. Because, if I start to really focus, my conscious mind begins to apply data, which is not accurate.”

Ifs Mind Focus Information Conscious Impression Ice Data Accurate Rapids Conscious Mind

Author:Caroline Myss

“When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.”

Looks Humor Light Funny Black Bars Impression Stains Mustard

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Finding places to perform was definitely the biggest challenge. Trying to find my voice over the years was a big thing because when I started I was just doing characters and impressions and that was it.”

Trying Years Character Bigs Voice Challenges Findings Impression Big Things Voice Over

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.”

People Knows Littles Stills Red Impression Relevant Outdated

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.”

Trying Looks Has Beens Said Character Stories Voice Stage Stupid Genius Jokes Crosses Impression Checks Chickens Chicks Telling Stories

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.”

Age Lasts Worst Taste Impression

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.”

Want Giving Conversation Impression Household Appliances Toasters

Author:Tom Robbins

“My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.”

Want Feels Play Games Achieve West Impression Manipulate Putin

Author:Leon Panetta

“What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.”

Mind Has Beens Age Brain Rich Information Fields Impression Data Accumulation

Author:George Carlin

“Every interview is as much an impression of the journalist as it is the artist or subject. You look at interviews and you see a portrait of two people. The worst thing that can happen is if you're misquoted and then that quote is misquoted. That does drive one crazy. The most embarrassing thing is when your words are misrepresented or sometimes you say something stupid and you live to regret it.”

People Ifs Looks Doe Two Sometimes Happens Artist Crazy Worst Subjects Stupid Regret Impression Journalist Interviews Portraits Worst Things Embarrassing

Author:Antony Hegarty

“The biggest thing when you're playing live is that you're sitting across from the player and can get a detailed impression of how they're acting, and whether they're expressing strength or weakness. Online, it's much more about betting patterns and you're using a much narrower range of cues to what they're holding and thinking.”

Thinking Acting Player Weakness Sitting Patterns Impression Range Online Betting

Author:Phil Ivey

“It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.”

Thinking Trying Reality Lasts Remember Felt Forever Imagine Species Impression Preserves Going Away Capture Realistic Imagine That Remembers Everything

Author:James Arthur

“I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.”

Ifs Way Remember Values Lost Environment Childhood Towns Impression Small Town Rest Of Your Life Lost Friend

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.”

People Ifs Want Kids My Own Please Impression

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.”

Giving Universe Impression Towers Ivory Ivory Tower

Author:George Coyne

“Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.”

People Knows Love Trying Hard Talent Impression Fascinating Wrong Impression

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.”

People Giving Wanted Lasts Games Fun Impact Addiction Impression Get Away

Author:Edie Falco

“The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.”

Long Important Human Nature Consequence Impression Infancy Duration

Author:John Locke

“Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.”

Mind May Sometimes Force Liberty Enemy Clear Wall Argument Impression Firm Strongest Nevertheless Mud Batteries Stand Firm

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

Matter Reading Novel Argument Impression

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.”

World Character Secret Balance Incredibles Stupidity Profession Impression Odd Intimate Reserves Chekhov

Book:Another Mexico

Source: Another Mexico

“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”

Mind Hard Science Death Desire Dying Perception Flesh Senses Impression Release Puppets Impermanence

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.”

Speak Policy Impression Partnership Antagonism

Author:Gerhard Schroder

“A picture is the expression of an impression”

Expression Impression

Author:Ernst Haas

“People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.”

People Importance Busy Impression Lunch Too Busy

Author:John Howard

“I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.”

“To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.”

Impression Remove Aloofness

Book:Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice

Source: Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice

“I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.”

Firsts Remember Reading Mom My Mom Impression Magazines Cinema Italian Trash Paparazzi First Impression

Author:Wim Wenders

“I've just grown into not having to care so much and to not try to think that I'm going to be able to plan out the way that everyone perceives me. There are no false impressions. Everyone's impression of you is going to be what it is in that isolated moment.”

Thinking Way Trying Moments Care Able Plans Impression Perceive Isolated

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Sometimes, just to give the impression that you have the strength and the vitality demands a lot. You can't always give that impression when you have heels and a wig on and it's 40 degrees outside.”

Giving Sometimes Demand Degrees Impression Heels Vitality Wigs

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can see all the technicians and everybody is really doing the same thing at the same time. With close-ups, of course you have the crew there, but most of them are just around and it doesn't involve that many people.”

People Long Together Courses Scene Complicated Impression Working Together Crew Technicians

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes, or problems, or ideas. But those are actually things that develop out of characters, out of images and out of other things. These more abstract things develop while working on the material, and out of it. It's not a theoretical exercise from the outset.”

Made Ideas Character Problem Film Trouble Materials Exercise Criticism Impression Abstract Theme Theoretical

Author:Michael Haneke

“The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play... there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.”

Mind Important Play Character Special Effects Creation Focused Impression Islands Visuals Editing Collaborators Visual Effects

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I have the impression that every time I'm heartbroken, I leave a bit of myself behind. I am the believer. I go back and do the same mistakes over and over again and sign them proudly.”

Bits Behinds Mistake Believer Impression Heartbroken Same Mistakes

Author:Xavier Dolan

“My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.”

Giving Different Sometimes Used Decision Behinds Cases Perspective Scene Impression Video Devices Yield Users Usage Behind The Scenes User Experience

Author:Marques Brownlee

“The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.”

World Book Matter Hard Character Hands Seems Individual Differences Identity Mass Extraordinary Connected Impression Multitudes Printed Linear

Author:Don DeLillo

“Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.”

People Wells Made Real Whole Kids Moving Cases Saws Week Couple Whole Life Yesterday Impression Moving In Very Moving

Author:Sean Penn

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.”

Years Mind Made States Lying Certain Taken Presses Radio Impression Diets Steady Distortion Misled Censored Totalitarian State Falsification

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

“Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.”

Men Done Action Wish He Man Duty Meetings Impression Substitutes Solitary Minimum Companionship Prestige Being Done Tedium Assemblage

Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929

Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929

“Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.”

Men Needs Wells Eye Humanity Sound Forever Dare Impression Doctrine Rational Conclusion His Eyes Reasoning

Book:On Being Human

Source: On Being Human

“"Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making."”

People Years Ideas Twenties Impression Great Idea Overnight Success

Author:Sam Walton

“I was assigned to a medical unit and was part of a group receiving men returning from theater headed to hospital care, many forever maimed with life-altering wounds. It made a strong impression because wounded men and body bags come back to home districts, not Washington, D.C., and accordingly, there is no more sacred vote than those surrounding war where life hangs in the balance.”

Men Made War Home Body Care Strong Forever Groups Balance Vote Theater Sacred Medical Wounds Impression Bags Hospitals Receiving Wounded Units Life Altering

Author:Mark Sanford

“The whole life of Demosthenes... leaves the impression of a melancholy state of things, and of the brazen insolence of wickedness. A particularly striking idea of how things really were in Greece can be obtained from one feature of life - the sons who turned out badly.... the sons of gifted but arrogant fathers turned out merely arrogant, the grandsons hopeless; it is respect alone that sustains families and gives them traditions.”

Giving Ideas States Whole Father Son Tradition Whole Life Impression Features Hopeless Melancholy Arrogant Gifted Wickedness Greece Brazen Grandson Insolence

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression.”

Ifs Thinking Way Littles Impression Range Exaggeration Impressionists

Author:Kevin Nealon

“Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up.”

Shows Would Be Night Comedy Impression Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Sketch Comedy

Author:Kevin Nealon

“Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.”

People Firsts Looks Dog Impression Deceiving First Impression

Author:Elizabeth Holmes

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