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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica Jong
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference. -- R. A. Salvatore
Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal. -- Charles Bronson
We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that. -- Drew Goddard
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. -- Carl Clinton Van Doren
A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all. -- Matthew Fox
Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer's room as well as the ideal family. -- Jill Soloway
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities. -- Pedro Almodovar
The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful. -- Jane Fonda
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients. -- Amy Bloom
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away. -- Tony Judt
Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel. -- Sondre Lerche
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home. -- Victoria Secunda
To me idealized characters are so boring to play, especially having grown up in the classical theater. That's a great experience, but as a woman, especially, you've played a lot of idealized characters. So when you've got someone who has weaknesses as well as strengths, that's interesting. -- Annette Bening
Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. -- Joan Cusack
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. -- Dan Savage
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate. -- Aasif Mandvi
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. -- Rufus Wainwright
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic. -- Virginia Postrel
Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. -- Tony Campolo
God is man idealized. -- Amiri Baraka
Leading man seems to quite often be an idealized figure. -- James McAvoy
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. -- Virginia Postrel
If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself. -- Timothy Keller
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. -- Anais Nin
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. -- Jane McGonigal
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed. -- Frank Herbert
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. -- Ilka Chase
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. -- Robertson Davies
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? -- Rufus Wainwright
I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized. -- Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.
These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating -- Vine Deloria Jr.
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering. -- James Hillman
From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring. -- Aasif Mandvi
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words. -- Natalie Portman
In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar. -- Will Schwalbe
Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves. -- Dalai Lama
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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