Quotes About Misconception

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman. It used to astound me when sensible people said otherwise.

Sometimes people said an obvious thing, and what they meant by it wasn't obvious at all.

In spite of his name, Bob Troutman wasn't much of a catch.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

Most Muslims never delve into theology, and we rarely read the Quran; we are taught it in Arabic, which most Muslims can't speak. As a result, most people think that Islam is about peace. It is from these people, honest and kind, that the fallacy has arisen that Islam is peaceful and tolerant.

It angers me how scholars associate the blues strictly with tragedy.

I think when people think of Compton, of course, they always think of gangster rap. But if you ever had an opportunity to go to Compton, you would know that Compton is a beautiful city.

Indians have a huge misconception when it comes to rap. It isn't just about heavy beats; it is about poetry.

People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music.

Los Angeles gets a very bad rap, the perception, especially by us Brits, is 'Oh, it's so fake,' but it's the antithesis!

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

If we met today and you had no idea who I was, you'd just think I was a normal guy. You wouldn't think I'm a rapper.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm in control of every situation. I'm rarely in control of any situation.

People have seen me on-field, but no one knows about my off-field life. People rarely know that personality of me.

I guess what's happened is that I've a little bit let go of the idea that we can reach everybody. Certain people... the informational world they live in, it's so distorted that it's hard to get through.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

I was always a keen reader. I jotted down one or two things, but it never occurred to me to think of a job in writing. I thought that writers were like demi-gods. I don't know what I thought.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

'In the Cut' was not what readers expected of me. Before it was published, I was seen as a women's writer, which meant that I wrote movingly about flowers and children.

I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.

Most women in pageants love the actual pageant - the competition, the show. They don't understand that it is actually a real job that you are paid a real salary for.