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"Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do."
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"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write.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."

"It is a very strange thing to see so many images in the world around us... we don't realise it, but we are all impressionable beings, able to pick up off of the images that bombard us on a daily basis. We are created and moulded by images and impressions. One of the most difficult tasks in life, is to keep a steady impression of something in your sight, and to believe in it until it becomes you. Because there is just so much temptation/opportunity, to become something else."

"In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right."

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."

"Then, as now, the Disney studio buzzed with activity. You had a strong impression of being at the center of something very exciting."

"The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold."

"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression."

"One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma."

"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
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"But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking."


"Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going."


"Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it."


"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it."


"I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up."
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