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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 the days of D.W. Griffith.
Spike Lee
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Film Director
Black
Cinema
People
Portrayed
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There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.
Charles Murray
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Consistently
Incompetent
Portrayed
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More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.
Paul Gillmor
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Former U.s. Representative
Hollywood
Make Believe
Horrors
Portrayed
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I would like to believe that all the roles I have portrayed so far - no matter how significant or insignificant they are - have been appreciated by the audience.
Shweta Menon
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Appreciated
Insignificant
Portrayed
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'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'
Chloe Pirrie
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Horrible
Heights
Portrayed
Wuthering
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I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.
Robert Kurson
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Portrayed
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I certainly don't recognise myself as the horrible sexist portrayed in media reports, and I don't think the women who have worked with me throughout my career do either.
Tim Hunt
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Horrible
Recognise
Reports
Sexist
Women Myself Me
Portrayed
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If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.
Kiki Layne
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Real Life
Life Thinking People
Carry
Portrayed
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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 was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.
Charles Kuralt
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Journalist
Boys
Father
Hate
Reporters
Borrow
Card
Hat
Portrayed
Stick
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I get frustrated by the way camp is portrayed sometimes. Camp, for me, is a nice 'everyone is welcome' kind of thing rather than an 'ooh, what's she wearing' kind of thing.
Joe Lycett
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Frustrated
Welcome
Me Sometimes Way
Ooh
Portrayed
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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 imitated by an actor.
Felix Dennis
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Poet
Documentaries
Fun
Play
Two
Imitated
No Fun
Portrayed
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There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
Gary Bauer
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Activist
Men
Hatred
Views
Portrayed
Shared
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The stories are being written by men, and it's men who are directing it. As long as that continues, you won't be seeing much change in the way women are portrayed in cinema.
Suhasini Maniratnam
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Cinema
Seeing
Change Men Women
Women Are
Directing
Change Women Men
Portrayed
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I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he's greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn't.
Johan Renck
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Director
Audacious
Evil
Good Guy
Love Time Good
Certain Point
Greatly
Portrayed
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When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
Frank Abagnale
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Consultant
Leonardo
Love Always Me
Dicaprio
Love Look Me
Leonardo Dicaprio
Onscreen
Portrayed
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Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
Chelsea Clinton
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Journalist
Adjectives
Apathetic
Disinterested
Millennials
Privileged
Selfish
Describe
Meet
None
Portrayed
Tuned
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Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
Michael Novak
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Philosopher
Character
Figures
Gdp
Pope
Western
Years
Bishop
Practically
Portrayed
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I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
Amy Heckerling
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Film Director
Accountants
Balls
Growing Up
Hollywood
Nerd
Afraid
Portrayed
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I think people really want to see the real because the world is portrayed at such a low level that if you come out with a real wholesome show, people don't want to see that anymore.
Fred Hammond
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Singer
World People Real
Wholesome
Low
Portrayed
Show People
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I feel privileged to have grown up in Germany so it was a heavy blow for me to be portrayed as somebody who isn't integrated and who doesn't live his life according to German values.
Ilkay Gundogan
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Blow
Germany
Heavy
Integrated
Privileged
According
Life Me Feel
German
Grown
Portrayed
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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 testing these predictions.
Brian Schmidt
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Professor
Science
Despite
Developing
Predictions
Testing
Understanding
Then
Absolute
Often
How
Making
Portrayed
Truths
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I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.
Megan Fox
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Actress
Ice
Self Absorbed
Sympathetic
Almost
Android
People Feelings Feel
Queen
Portrayed
Robot
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I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
Rachel Miner
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Film Actress
Aspect
Despicable
Falling In Love
Love Beautiful People
Falling
Portrayed
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The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on 'Switched at Birth' because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
Sean Berdy
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Actor
Birth
Deaf
Homework
Norm
Television
Opposite
Accurately
Writers
Portrayed
Switched
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Even the biggest of criminals don't go through what I or my family went through. A small incident was portrayed in the wrong way in front of the world. Maybe that's how the world works.
S. Sreesanth
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Wrong Way
Incident
Portrayed
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I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.
Mike Leigh
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Writer
Integrity
Long
Worry
Me Long Important
Stopped
Portrayed
Press
Ultimately
Worrying
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I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.
Al Jourgensen
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Musician
Audio
Directors
Effort
People
Soundtracks
Love Effort People
Visual
Portrayed
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The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.
Pilou Asbaek
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Interesting Character
Portrayed
Protagonist
Shakespeare
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Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.
Kevin Kwan
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Ads
Decades
Asians
Portrayed
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'Girl In A Country Song' is basically a song about what it's like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.
Maddie Marlow
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Barbie
Doll
Portrayed
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I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a terrible period portrayed in documentaries you'd seen, flickering, in black and white.
Christine Leunens
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Black And White
Documentaries
My Generation
World War Ii
War World People
Flickering
Portrayed
World War
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I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.
Quinton Aaron
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Film Actor
Portrayed
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Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
David Suzuki
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Professor
Exaggerating
Structure
Politics Business Power
Grant
Portrayed
Power Structure
Scientists
Threats
Vested
Vested Interest
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There have been a lot of things where communities haven't been portrayed in a positive light, and even when we were doing 'Youngers' in Peckham, people were cautious about what we were filming.
Percelle Ascott
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Cautious
Filming
Portrayed
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And with regard to the Italian family we portrayed on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' - Italians and Jews do share two traits: all problems are solved with food, and the mother never leaves you alone.
Philip Rosenthal
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Italian Family
Regard
Traits
Italians
Jews
Leaves
Portrayed
Raymond
Solved
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Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American people can have a leaning to be very conservative.
Lynn Whitfield
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African American
Funny Enough People
Funny People Way
Donald
Donald Trump
Leaning
Portrayed
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We, as a culture, use television as at least one of the great arbiters of truth. Even though we know it's fiction, when we see it portrayed, we believe it. We recognize it as part of our culture.
Peter Paige
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At Least One
Portrayed
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd
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Recording Artist
Changed
Music World Me
Anything Else
Music World Your
Catch
Failed
Portrayed
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A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.
Jamila Woods
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Causes
Chicago
Protective
Time Face People
Developed
Portrayed
Root
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The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
Robert T. Bakker
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Paleontologist
Dinosaurs
Impact
Life History Me
Geological
Magazine
Portrayed
Struck
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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 the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.
Andy Roddick
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Tennis Player
Covered
Everyman
Meat
Style
Thinking
Who I Am
Wimbledon
Andy
Portrayed
Rooting
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You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.
Dougray Scott
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Actor
Imagination
Historians
Make Up
Portrayed
Screen
Thankfully
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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 able to have any kind of normal, happy life.
Daniel Tammet
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Writer
Autism
Happy Life
Media
Negative
Socializing
Condition
Communicating
Portrayed
Prevents
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I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.
Lauren Mayberry
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Women
Dissertation
Eight
Femininity
Media
Months
Reading
Tone
Used
Voice
Words
Women Are
Did
Idea
Images
Portrayed
Terms
Spent
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I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.
Luis Suarez
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Soccer Player
Awful
Bad Boy
Said
Stuck
Boy
Bit
Bad
Read
Hear
Image
Portrayed
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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 be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.
Issa Rae
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Writer
Cool
Awkward
Dramatic
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Worst
Always People Black
Cool Always People
Overly
Portrayed
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I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?
Maxine Peake
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All Things
Weak
Big Thing
Portrayed
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In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.
Erin O'connor
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Model
Comfortable
Disguise
Fashion
Grandiose
Creature
Lady
Portrayed
Strip
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When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
Willem Dafoe
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Voice Actor
Cartoon
Cartoon Character
Character
Complexity
Fullness
Range
Want
Impulses
Portrayed
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We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.
Gioconda Belli
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Author
Careless
Creation
Damning
Identities
Many Respects
Portrayed
Respects
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