Quotes About Assumption

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.

If I go to England, they know I'm not an Englishman, but most Americans think I'm English.

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass the truth of mine.

When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

People fill in the unknown with what fits with THEIR known.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question.

She looked right at me and said nothing. I assumed it was because she was hanging from my every word, so I continued.

My first rule is not to say or do anything too gender-specific, and to just let the stranger in question continue believing I am whatever gender they assume me to be, the catch being, of course, that I am quite often not certain just which gender box I should continue to help them make me fit into. This can get tricky quickly.

Scarcity is historical, as historical as gender or sex. The era of scarcity could come to be only on the assumption that 'man' is individual, possessive, and, in the matter of material survival, gender-less - a rapacious neutrum oeconomicum.

If you think Sigourney Weaver is sexy then you are a homosexual.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Every leader-writer who thunders 'Galileo' at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does.

to ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

At a tight table with a full complement of players, you need to assume that bets mean pretty much what they're supposed to mean.

Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through life following a script that others wrote for them.

I think it not amiss to say that I am a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture. Many persons might find this statement puzzling, assuming that if a person is a radical in one realm, he is a radical in all others

Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

You like or dislike people long before you know much about them; you trust or distrust strangers without knowing why; you feel that an enterprise is bound to succeed without analyzing it. Whether you state them or not, you often have answers to questions that you do not completely understand, relying on evidence that you can neither explain nor defend.

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as a writer I often feel that what really has happened is that the viewer has gotten to know the characters. It's a natural process.

Nine per cent of my viewers are men, of which the majority is, I think, 45 to 50. I like to tell myself it's just my dad watching.