#perceptions

Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor! ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#crime #humor #movies #murderers #perceptions

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#determine #help #how #key #metaphors

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ↗

— Mark Twain

#because #call #dull #dumb #his

I knew her better than herself …and she was beautiful and strong and felt deep. It has always surprised me to see the way she saw herself; how little she thought about her person. It struck me as surprising because every single time I’ve seen her, I’ve thought her larger than life. And that’s why the world feared her. Because they couldn’t compare to her; she raised a new bar for others to be measured by. Because looking at the sun hurts…and she was that to me. My own piece of sky. ↗

— Eiry Nieves

#beauty #love #lovers-love-story #perceptions #beauty

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false. ↗

— Nance O'Neil

#any #art #betrays #contempt #emotional

I could now see her the way she actually is and not in the distorted way my mind presented her to me when I was trying to find a reason to reject her and move on ↗

— Jack Weyland

#perceptions #relationships #love

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#comes #control #cool #decided #early

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it. ↗

— Vince Gill

#funny #funny thing #going #into #majority

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#already #change #correct #fact #found

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#endless #equally #frequently #hence #history