Quotes About Representation

A story isn't like a smoothly running engine, but is rather like a photograph. Photos can never be a perfect representation of what an eye looking at the same subject will see, partially due to the limitations of lenses and emulsions, but largely due to the conscious choice of the photographer.

Bernie Ecclestone's comment that 'If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Most importantly for me, historical accuracy also meant this could not be a story of only straight, white, nondisabled men. Crips, queers, women and other genders, and people of colour are an integral part of the history of Britain—we are embedded at every level of society, present during every change, and part of every problem and its solution. We are here now; we were there then. So we are in this story.

Epistemología que acople un idealismo ontológico a un realismo axiológico. El mundo es mi representación, menos los esplendores que lo rasgan.

Art, likewise, is no longer seeking to represent utopias; rather, it is attempting to construct concrete spaces.

How good is different? I search stories for someone who resembles me. If it weren't for books and Joe, "different" would just be lonely.

As unnatural actors, vampires represent freedom from activity - even, it seems, from sexuality.

in a democracy the great leaders are allowed to lead only because they are elected.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

So you have a maniac who says he's representing all of World Jewry, and people say "okay, if he represents all of World Jewry, then the Jews are a problem

In this perspective what I like or don't like disappears, because there's nothing left of me as a separate person: as a reader of literature I exist only as a representative of humanity as a whole. We

Well, I do feel that I carry the responsibility of representing my country wherever I am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has.

There was an English major. He wanted to be a writer and tell our story from the inside—which had only been done thirty or forty times before.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.

kad?na dara?ac?na ç?kma hakk? tan?n?yor; öyleyse kürsüye ç?kma hakk? da olmal?d?r.

Why didn't an epic poet ever write a word about our lives?

Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.

We are spokespersons for our Lord, and advocacy is in our genes.

A vote isn't just a piece of paper: it's a person's way of weighing in on who should be running the country, so not voting is the same as throwing away their say in the matter.

Democracy is a much more brilliant idea than it seems.

One of the biggest reasons that people don't vote is because they don't see the point, so I can explain that the only way they can be heard is by casting a vote.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

make the House of Commons a cage for 500 parrots and apes, and complain of the decadence of oratory and of statecraft 1 And, indeed," he added with a grim chuckle, "the parrots and apes would more nearly resemble the politicians they would displace, than do the players of our day resemble the art which they affect to represent.