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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Book
Gives
True
Glimpse
Mostly
Am
Impression
Stand
Night
I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
Jack Antonoff
First
First Impression
Rock
Rock Star
Impression
Up
Grew
Star
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
Jack Dee
Trust
People
Long
Nothing
Live
Having
Tend
Except
Remains
He
He Or She
Wrong
Since
Institution
Know
She
Tidy
Houses
Although
Within
Disciplined
Surface
Leaves
Impression
Left
Very
Person
Being
Confines
Which
Who
Lived
Stark
My ambitions are just to keep working hard and, when I do get on, to make an impression.
Jack Rodwell
Ambition
Make
Impression
Get
Just
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Keep
Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
Jacob Zuma
Future
Constitution
Expediency
Dangerous
Political
Problems
Will
Difficult
Citizens
Solve
Abide
Give
Make
Judgments
Govern
Impression
Precedence
Current
Regard
Ordinary
Which
Disregard
Set
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
Jacques Rivette
History
You
Young
Films
See
Directors
Around
Impression
Begins
Get
Them
Certain
Film
Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.
Jaime Lerner
Change
People
Better
Sometimes
Problems
Situation
Locally
City
Gives
Layer
Could
Terminal
Global
Because
Understand
Impression
Patients
Ozone
Warmth
Us
Act
Media
Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.
James Adomian
People
Parents
Everyone
Ability
Developed
Highly
Talk
Learns
How
Doing
Impression
Who
Many
One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.
James Brady
Beautiful
People
Own
Else
Airline
Had
Clear
Beautiful People
Tickets
Impression
Very
Prudence
May
Little
Paid
A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
James Salter
You
Gives
Name
Like
Piece
Course
Impression
Clothing
Away
Right
Right Away
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
James Vincent McMorrow
You
Disservice
Through
Make
Impression
Get
Chance
I have a lot of my mother in me, but I was just born with the same parts as my father. I don't sound like him. I mean, I can do an impression of him right now, and I do not sound like him. I sound like me. My sense of rhythm I learned from my mother. My melodies, I think sometimes, I get from my mother.
Jeff Buckley
Me
Sometimes
Mother
Father
Sense
Think
Melodies
Born
Like
Him
Learned
Parts
Sound
Lot
Impression
Get
Same
Just
Rhythm
Mean
Now
Right
My grandmother started as a ticket-taker and basically became the CFO of my dad's company. It was a very important first impression for me - I've always looked on the business with more eyes than just as a wrestler.
Jeff Jarrett
Me
Business
Eyes
First
Important
Wrestler
More
First Impression
Looked
Became
Always
Impression
Very
Than
Just
Grandmother
Company
Dad
Started
Basically
When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.
Jeffrey Wright
Creativity
World
Money
Made
Diminish
Would
More
Make
Off
Impression
Artist
Wanted
Capacity
Actor
Thing
Started
Last
The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
Jennifer Doudna
Work
Sometimes
Thinking
About
Implications
Always
Scientists
Impression
Labs
Maybe
Public
Created
Working
Away
Among
Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
Jerry Seinfeld
Me
Has-Been
Bother
Stern
Well
Doing
Howard Stern
Been
His
Years
Impression
Really
You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.
Jesse Andrews
You
People
School
Will
Ruin
Kids
Kind
High
Unpleasant
Some
High School
Wrong
Know
Terrified
Because
Impression
Up
Persona
Just
Want
Anything
Public
Your
Show
Actually
The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.
Jesse Eisenberg
People
First
Drawing
Poster
Scariest
Over
First Impression
Make
Because
Always
Impression
Up
Very
Did
Going
Often
Different
Movie
Turn
Who
Film
Actor
Actually
Portraying
When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics' reviews and box office figures.
Jim Sarbh
Me
Memories
Happy
Grateful
Reflection
Mind
Everyone
Critics
Well
Box
Box Office
Does
Leaves
Reviews
Impression
Office
Process
Created
Figures
Film
Filming
My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.
Jim Thome
Me
You
School
Walk
Made
Matters
Lasting
Out
High
High School
Impression
Door
Dad
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
Me
People
Tough
Aggressive
Leaves
Impression
Expect
May
Mean
Describe
I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.
John Michael Higgins
You
Army
Big
Few
Stage
Later
Months
Find
Ability
Make
Because
Leave
Lot
Impression
Friends
Brat
Just
Then
Navy
Actor
For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.
John Updike
Time
Best
Long
Long Time
States
Strip
Comic
Comic Strip
Terry
Impression
Pirates
United
United States
Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories.
Johnny Iuzzini
Food
Memories
Everyone
Definitely
Eating
Impression
Same
Tastes
Same Things
Different
Things
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
Johnny Ramone
Somehow
Records
Lot
Impression
Left
Sell
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.
Jon Landau
Good
Business
Will
Made
Advice
Beginning
Think
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Lock
Out
Tell
He
Studio
Put
Come
Most
Contemporary
Until
Him
Advisor
Does
His
Rockers
Rocks
Impression
End
Up
Bunch
Gets
Done
Them
Profitable
Album
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