Skewed Quotes

Not having incredible success for a long time probably helped. Of course some 20-year-old beautiful girl, who goes from barely acting to being on the cover (of magazines) ... that`s going to be disorienting and confusing, and people can`t really be surprised if they have a skewed perspective of their importance in the world, when everyone comes together and tells them they`re the most important thing in the world, then hates them for believing it. I didn`t go through that. So that was lucky.

If a movie isn`t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Anyone who might assert that our numbers were intentionally skewed is mistaken.

We calculated it three different ways so nobody can complain. We did it by average price, by median price and then average price per square foot. The reason for price per square foot is if someone goes into a ZIP code and builds 800 or 1,000 condominiums where they traditionally have 2,300-square-foot single-family homes, we didn`t want that number to be skewed.

The reason that minorities and women don`t have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn`t make abstract paintings.

I don`t really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, ... I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don`t have many memories of my childhood, period.

Our research was telling us viewers in our market are getting plenty of local news, local, local, if you will. It`s no secret our 6 o`clock news is skewed to our eastern market. We felt `Virginia News Tonight` could fill a void that our research is telling us.

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don`t'¦ you know, it`s interesting. I think we don`t make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don`t have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.