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I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
Joe Biden
Angry
Me
People
Gone
Telling
Exaggerate
About
Never
True
Around
Things
An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.
Johan Lindeberg
Balance
Yourself
Style
Own
Way
Bit
Easy
Find
Easy Way
Exaggerate
Then
Your
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
John Perry Barlow
Internet
Power
Respects
Exaggerate
Individual
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could relate to.
Jorja Smith
People
Writing
Relate
Bit
Exaggerate
Something
More
More People
Fact
Could
Like
Tiny
Turn
Then
One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
Mark Valley
Work
You
Sometimes
Mouth
Action
Live
Bit
Kind
One Of The Things
Exaggerate
Facial
More
Voice-Over
Get
Whereas
Little
Little Bit
Realizing
Your
Live Action
Away
Actually
Things
Muscles
I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
Mary Gaitskill
People
Project
Critics
Exaggerate
Simply
Feel
Because
Misunderstood
Subjective
Lot
Frightening
Often
Them
Fragility
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
Matthew Lawrence
Life
You
Try
Real Life
Exaggerate
Make
Real
Movies
Based
When you make movies of based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
Matthew Lawrence
Life
You
Try
Real Life
Exaggerate
Make
Real
Movies
Based
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
Maz Jobrani
Reality
Comedy
Exaggerate
Able
Take
Had
Been
Iranian
Tragedy
Tragic
America
Quite
Being
Stand-Up Comedy
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.
Michel Houellebecq
Myself
Writing
Own
Think
Exaggerate
My Own
Realist
Little
Who
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
Montesquieu
Too Much
Too
Minds
Weak
Weak Minds
Exaggerate
Wrong
Done
African
Much
I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
Naomi Wolf
Best
Women
Humanity
Hate
World
Men
Own
Think
Distance
Exaggerate
Facing
Masculine
Most
Forces
Deny
Trying
Behaviour
Them
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
Nick Clooney
Attitude
War
Impossible
Our
Gulf
Atlantic
Exaggerate
Between
Iraq
Iraq War
Friends
American
Across
View
Wide
Widening
The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?
Pauly Shore
Truth
Best
Me
You
Comedy
Seen
Baby
Exaggerate
Since
Like
Understand
Up
Did
Pryor
Grew
Again
Richard
Richard Pryor
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.
Roald Dahl
Good
You
Ugly
Think
Way
Extremely
Characters
Bad
Find
Exaggerate
Impact
Only
Cruel
Qualities
Make
Makes
Nasty
Very
Person
Children
Interesting
Them
Really
Fun
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Robert Gottlieb
Black
Matters
Shoes
Mad
Exaggerate
Driven
Red
Tale
Another
Cliches
Ballerina
Ballet
Swan
Movies
Really
Earlier
Suicidal
I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.
Robert Irvine
Family
People
Sorry
White
White House
Related
Statements
Exaggerate
Facts
Misleading
Wrong
House
Am
Truly
Experiences
Royal
Royal Family
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Sarah Bernhardt
King
Suitable
Too
Exaggerate
Prone
King Lear
More
He
Powers
Lear
Hamlet
His
Wants
Appearance
Actor
Play
There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.
Stanley Donen
Life
Me
Words
Mother
My Life
First
Exaggerate
Point
Never
Call
Were
Suspect
Any
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
Tim Wise
Racism
People
Denial
Long
White
Claims
Exaggerate
Rather
Tend
Color
Bias
Because
Than
Precisely
Experiences
Them
Racial
A lot of times, I have personal things, things I go through that I may exaggerate or make a story around, but it always has a meaning related to something I've been through for real.
Tink
Related
Exaggerate
Something
Through
Make
Around
Always
Real
Go
Been
Lot
Times
Personal
May
Story
Personal Things
Meaning
Things
I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
Veronica Roth
World
Think
Our
Books
Out
Exaggerate
About
Something
Point
Tendency
Stemmed
Look
Sort
Author
Current
Dystopian
Created
Fascinating
Belief
Now
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