#idealized

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#even #fascinated #funnier #her #i

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#certain #certain point #go #healthy #hold

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. ↗

— Victoria Secunda

#beyond #both #conflicting #daddy #daughter

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#behavior #concept #condemned #feel #freud

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#heroism #i #idealized #interested #lot

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ↗

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#cast #casting #casting directors #directors #i