#impression

Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people. ↗

— Stephen Root

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An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#europe #father #important #impression #sabbatical

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#distinctly #effect #general #happiest #impression

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#ago #asked #come #course #done

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#film #impressions #life #my life #part

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#bare #beauty #cannot #delight #give

Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs. ↗

— Joan Jett

#describe #expect #fangs #i #impression

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. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign

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. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#comes #could #give #important #impression

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. ↗

— John J. Sirica

#after #already #attempt #doubt #former