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“One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to them: Put Elvis Presley in the studio with a bunch of good, contemporary rockers, lock the studio up, and tell him he can't come out until he's done made an album that rocks from beginning to end.”

Thinking Doe Made Ends Done Advice Rocks Albums Studios Impression Bunch Contemporary Locks Profitable Advisors Rockers

Author:Jon Landau

“When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.”

Character Voice Week Crazy Huge Impression Producers Sections Rehearsal Loops Impersonate

Book:Too Fat to Fish

Source: Too Fat to Fish

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

World Left My Own Impossible Concepts Opposites Newspapers Impression Devices Adultery Pitching Homicide Later In Life

Book:Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.”

Despair Disappointment Impression California Los Angeles

Book:My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century

Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century

“If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.”

Ifs Men Would Be Film Every Man Impression Making Love Make Love To Me

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.”

People Should Stuff Impression

Author:Norm MacDonald

“The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.”

Form Impression My Future Future Life

Author:Gustav Mahler

“I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.”

World Mean Individual Style Yeah Impression Individual Style

Author:Taylor Momsen

“Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.”

Country Sometimes Party Brother Honor And Love Casts Impression Patriotism Brothers And Sisters Partisans Your Brother Partisan Politics

Author:Ricardo Montalban

“Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.”

Moments Eye Artist Memories Painting Simplicity Details Impression Emptiness

Author:Edvard Munch

“Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”

Anger Angry Impression

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”

Novel Impression Balanced Multitudes

Author:Saul Bellow

“People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.”

People Doe Language Track Impression Dictionary Usage

Author:Steven Pinker

“Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along.”

Self Facts Turns Process Attention Brain Consciousness Events Impression Outcomes Rationalize Maelstrom

Author:Steven Pinker

“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.”

World Firsts Looks Persons Eye Beautiful Actors Sex Impression Symbols Beautiful Things First Impression Sex Symbol

Author:Brad Pitt

“Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.”

Two Different Used Animal Impression Used To Be Comedian Showbiz Impressionists

Author:John Podhoretz

“I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.”

Want Feels Like You Actresses Impression Mum Going To Work Days Off

Author:Natalie Portman

“The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me in three different classes - but above all, he taught me lessons in moral, physical, and intellectual courage that I have tried to apply in later life.”

Men Made Different Three Father Moral Class Taught Lessons Intellectual Impression Lasting One Man Uncles Lasting Impressions

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.”

World Made Soul Country Together Night Parent Steps Knowing Bed Moon Impression Permanent Bless Boots World History God Bless Sofas Armstrong

Author:Mitt Romney

“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

I Can Impression Lifts

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.”

“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”

Facts Science Accounts Appearance Impression Substitutes Demonstration

Author:John Ruskin

“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.”

Feelings Literature Effects Produce Judging Violent Impression Pathetic Fake People Fallacy Falseness

Book:Selections and Essays

Source: Selections and Essays

“There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.”

May Pain Certain Literature Pleasure Impression Sensations Deceiving Hype Lively Kinky Dependable No More Pain

Author:Marquis de Sade

“You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress.”

People Thinking Knows Real Cases Streets Wall Truth Is Congress Impression Mistaken Real Truth

Author:Bernie Sanders

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

Firsts Real Opinion Judging Letters Impression First Impression

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.”

Firsts Faces Philosophical Impression Encounters Pessimism First Impression

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.”

My Own Poet Easier Impression Mortals Subjective

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.”

Giving Writing Important Lord Quiet Sacred Impression Instruction

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.”

Years Wells Has Beens Impression Bother

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.”

Mind Character Stories Environment Wonderful Reader Sells Impression Lasting Involving Lasting Impressions

Author:Wilbur Smith

“Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.”

Writing Firsts Two Important Literature Doors Week Mines Pages Letters Impression Mess Two Weeks First Impression Queries Sales Pitch

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.”

Values Literature Honor Gold Add Currents Impression Titles Silver Coins Brass

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.”

“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”

Two Country Funny America Witty Impression Canada Hilarious Two Days Canada Day Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Author:Jon Stewart

“The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.”

Giving Firsts Fame Impression Being Famous First Impression

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.”

Thinking Way Fun Bits Impression Fun Loving Wrong Impression

Author:Sting

“Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.”

Men Children Father Youth Impression Manhood Vivid

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.”

Believe Today I Believe Causes Sports Church Effects Dangerous Impression Doctrine Peculiar Judged Revival Cause And Effect Church Today

Book:Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ

“It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.”

Believe Problem Christian Easy Christ Our Lives Impression

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.”

Real Jobs Impression Cleaning Thankless

Author:Francois Truffaut

“It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.”

Ifs Knows Actors Interesting Terrible Impression Good Actors Mime

Author:Christopher Walken

“There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.”

Choices Actors Impression

Author:Christopher Walken

“I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.”

Thinking Giving Mean Character Actors One Thing Six Notes Scripts Impression Covered Comment Salt Say Anything Really Mean Character Actors Subtext

Author:Christopher Walken

“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.”

Thinking Way Kind Sometimes Happens Turns Given Hurt Honest Trust Encouragement Impression All Kinds Being Honest Been Hurt

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.”

Thinking Made Bigs Fashion Impression Punk

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I've always been under the impression that it would be such a bummer to be in a peaceful place like Hawaii or the tropics and be stressed about catching waves.”

Would Be Wave Impression Peaceful Hawaii Catching Stressed Tropics Bummer Peaceful Places

Author:Shaun White

“I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.”

Humans Human Beings Impression

Book:The Widow's Son

Source: The Widow's Son

“No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.”

Giving May Matter Beautiful Ought Mathematics Impression Satisfied Mathematical Imperfect Mathematician Impress Appearing Theorems Being Beautiful

Author:George Boole

“I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.”

Thinking Hard Left Impression Memorable Hard Times Lasting Lasting Love Lasting Impressions

Author:Steve Yzerman

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