Quotes About Media Representation

#1. I am committed to creating a vision of the world that reflects how I believe it is: diverse. It is not an effort to diversify media representation, but rather, it comes out of the world I have grown up in.

Jennifer Phang

#2. If you're an actor, if you're not writing as well, or you're not going to improv classes, there are long spurts where you're not physically in production - unless you're Channing Tatum at this moment right now - where you need to be doing something.

Bret Harrison

#3. What if I shave?" he said. "I look much better when I'm shaved. My cousin will vouch for that - do I not look almost handsome when I shave, Edward? " He didn't wait for the duke's reply but turned earnestly back to Prudence. "Do you think you could marry me if I shaved?

Anne Gracie

#4. The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.

Arthur Dong

#5. The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Tariq Ramadan

#6. By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

Laura Mulvey

#7. You cannot have growth without change.

John C. Maxwell

#8. When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#9. One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

#10. If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Julia Roberts

#11. Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Aberjhani

#12. Children are mirrors; they will always show you exactly what is going on inside of you. Each phase of their growth is an opportunity to heal your own pain, to go deeper inside yourself and become more truly human

Vimala McClure

#13. I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

Jack Lew

#14. He hated hospitals, hated them. The stench of Domestos and death seemed to linger in his nostrils and on his clothes for weeks, as if to remind him of something bad. It was even rare to find a tasty nurse these days. Most of the ones he'd seen this afternoon had been as ugly as sin.

Dougie Brimson

#15. Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Carrie Fisher

#16. Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

J.M. Barrie

#17. I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Emma Ishta

#18. The older you get, the more people think they have to listen to you.

Bill Engvall

#19. Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa