Quotes About Categorization

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts to the second, the Epistles to the third, the Revelation.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.

If I'm being honest I hate the whole genre thing.

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

A Whig is a sort of third sex by itself that combines all the failings of the other two.

In all my years here, no one's been able to remember my name when I'm introduced. No one has bothered. They usually see us as types, not as individuals." His

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nobody can definitively say what separates one from the other, but that doesn't stop everybody (including me) from trying. Your book probably will be perceived as one or the other, and that will affect how it is read, packaged and marketed.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Los Perez son a la guía telefónica lo que los chinos a la población mundial

four classes of people. They have been classified

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

If the internet has taught me anything it is that people are either heroes or they belong in the bin.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

People love to put human beings or actors in boxes.

The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.'