Best Portrayed Quotations
126 Portrayed quotes by 122 unique authors
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I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all…
— Paul Feig
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When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That…
— Charles Kuralt
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Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since…
— Spike Lee
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I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.
— Rush Limbaugh
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So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I…
— Jennifer Lopez
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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for…
— Alan Moore
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Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think…
— Andy Roddick
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Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability…
— Jerry Saltz
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A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just…
— Harry Styles
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Often autism is portrayed in the media as a very negative condition, as something that prevents somebody from communicating or from socializing or from being…
— Daniel Tammet
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and…
— Felix Dennis
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Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model…
— David Bentley Hart
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Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden…
— Holly Black
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One would truly need a great and spacious makeup kit to compete with beauty as portrayed in media all around us. Yet at the end…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in…
— Michel Houellebecq
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You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed…
— Sarah MacLean
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Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder…
— Bette Davis
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Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to…
— Issa Rae
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Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then…
— Brian Schmidt
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Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
— Margaret Wertheim
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Early on, you talk about God because you consider Him to be most important. But later, you realize there are means by which God is…
— John Piper
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The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly…
— David D. Burns
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We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
— Okky Madasari
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