Portraying Quotes - Page 3

• Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

  Julia Alvarez

  School, Character, Issues

  Source: ncac.org

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• I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Law, Climate

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• I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

  Liz Prince

  Trying, Done, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are a lot of movies that take place internationally, like Kung Fu Panda portraying a little bit of China, and Ratatouille portraying a little about Paris, but it's hard to find a movie that portrays Rio or Brazil.

  Carlos Saldanha

  Paris, Kung Fu Panda, Pandas

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

  John Hughes

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

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• Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Real, People

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.17, SPCK

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• There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.

  Monica Potter

  Responsibility, Character, Light

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Character, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hypocrite, Men, Thinking

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

  Drake

  Successful, People, Black

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."

  Sarah Steele

  Girl, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

  Jake T. Austin

  Struggle, Order, People

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book that never stated truthfully the facts of our invasion or the cruelty we had to endure for generations.

  Leonard Peltier

  Book, America, People

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

  Denzel Whitaker

  Character, Vision, Acting

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotions/experiences. There also just seems to be a certain feeling/mood that I respond well to. I feel similarly about the artist Kahimi Karie and the films "An Education" and "Marie Antoinette." Anything with a strongly and unapologetically feminine point of view I tend to be interested in.

  Marie Calloway

  Successful, Artist, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I see now is that even with the Islamists, who have been portraying themselves as the alternative to corruption and dictatorship and in defence of more transparency, there is one respect in which they have now changed completely. Since the beginning of the 1920's, Islamism was very close in positioning in some respects to 'liberation theology'. But that is no longer the case.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Alternatives, Corruption, Cases

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

  Robbie Amell

  Would Be, Routine, Research

  "The Flash Actor Robbie Amell: The Importance of Persistence and Support". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

  Robert Polidori

  Character, Humanity, Body

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• As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

  Emmy Rossum

  Jobs, Different, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Unqualified, Good Job

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

  Debora Spar

  Thinking, Perfect, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

  Pam Grier

  Character, Thinking, Anxiety

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

  Paul Samuelson

  Children, Block, Pyramids

  Paul Anthony Samuelson (1961). “Economics: An Introductory Analysis”

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• Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

  Mpho Koaho

  Acting, Emotion, Vulnerable

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