Quotes About Perception

I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

People think pageant girls are snotty, cutthroat, self-absorbed. Everybody that I meet in the industry is so kind, giving, and they are some of the most amazing women.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Beginning in middle school, the era of wide-margined, Bible-paged anthologies, short stories develop unpromising associations - and these associations often linger through college, when stories become the things distributed in Xeroxes missing entire pages of line-endings.

You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.

You are never going to get snooker on to the front pages because there is not enough money in the game here.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

Benign envy can sound a lot like admiration. The difference is that, while admiration feels good, envy is painful.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.