Quotes About Misconception

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder's wife, and no, I am not his child.

Eating a stick of butter will raise HDL in those who are able to do so, but that does not mean that butter is good for your heart. It isn't.

People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

There's been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.

There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.

I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.

People don't realize who this band is always been because we're so young, and it's hard to get over that stigma.

I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There's this totally misconceived notion that it's hard to do, and it's not.