#perceptions

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#could #ego #his #i #novel

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #being #ceases #childhood #grows

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#appearance #because #compared #famous #gauge

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#descriptions #insider #people #perceptions #writers

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#exercise #forge #limitations #limits #perceptions

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #became #become #been #demise

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness. ↗

— Dave Sim

#away #between #came #commonly #connections

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor! ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#crime #humor #movies #murderers #perceptions