#impressions

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

— Saul Bellow

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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression. ↗

— Billy Zane

#always #better #character #enjoy #first

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#felt #impressions #keeps #nature #nearness

I loved the opportunity to just transform my voice. I loved the idea of doing impressions and mimicking and playing around with the spectrum of your own voice. That's what I enjoy most about doing voice-overs. ↗

— Justin Long

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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#correct #cuts #down #educational #genius

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. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#comedians #different #entirely #impressionists #impressions

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

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

— Gustav Stresemann

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