#misconceptions

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. ↗

— Jack LaLanne

#about #athletes #ball #because #bound

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't have misconceptions - they understand. I believe that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#feel #films #i #i believe #i believe that

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#contribute #developing #developing world #done #frankly

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic. ↗

— Laura Riding

#act #bad #believe #correct #does

My reality is the misconceptions about me. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#me #misconceptions #reality

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#heart #heartbreak #jane-eyre #love #misconceptions

Mistakes and regret, desease and death...ain't recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise. ↗

— Toba Beta

#desease #misconceptions #mistakes #regret #change

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#misconceptions #status-quo #intelligence

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#always #any #blow #cos #everyone