Essays Quote by Tom Bodett Download Open image “I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.” — Tom Bodett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Essays First person Firsts Guy Persons Voice
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow. — Nikki Bella Copy Share Image
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really… — Alex Borstein Copy Share Image
There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry. — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating. — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know? — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any.… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story. — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“I have not seen anywhere in the world a more obvious malformed person and miracle than myself. Through use and time we become conditioned… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image