#perceived

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#being #girl #i #partly #perceived

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#children #existence #felt #finely #injustice

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#dilemma #endeavors #felt #fiction #fiction writers

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#become #days #different #exposed #human

The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#cases #courts #indicating #influenced #interested

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something. ↗

— Randy Harrison

#anything #being #boy #danger #i

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#apple #company #creative #group #had

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. ↗

— Paul Berg

#biology #human #human values #ideas #impact