If you’re white working class, it’s very easy to caricature the elites, and if you’re elite, it’s very easy to caricature the white working class.
The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That’s just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don’t wait until they’re dead.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
My favorite caricaturist is Al Hirschfeld. I’m always trying to give my caricatures that streamlined quality – and I often fall short.
I am an extremely private person. I always feel that I come across as a caricature of myself whenever I do interviews.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.
I believe it’s worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
You get to be a certain age – I am 58 – and it becomes tricky not to become a caricature of yourself.
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
When I made ‘Polly Maggoo,’ it was more or less the end of this collaboration with ‘Vogue’ because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn’t really adore me.
If the KKK was smart enough, they would’ve created gangsta rap because it’s such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
As a CEO, I had significant exposure to private equity, enough that I had in no way bought into the media’s caricature: rapacious privateers who destroy companies.
I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don’t watch Fox News, then it’s just a caricature, it’s not real, they have it in their heads that it’s something very different than what it actually is.
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you’re really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.
Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it’s never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.
I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it’s ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself.
I can’t look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
When I look at someone’s face, there’s something in my brain that just clicks – that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.
Women are more difficult to caricature than men – partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
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