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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.


John Cleese


#being #bland #businessman #comes #cruel

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.


Nick Clegg


#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.


Steve Coogan


#always #audience #being #challenge #character

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.


Lady Gaga


#androgyny #i #i love #love #myself

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.


Dean Koontz


#characters #driven #end #experience #extreme

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.


Dave Thomas


#anger #appears #bad #bad guys #becomes

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.


Steven Levitan


#characters #door #every #every time #family

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?


Jenna Bush


#i #media #portrayed #really #then

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.


Mark Strong


#armour #because #blows #could #cup

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.


Albert Bandura


#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive






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