I have never seen a role like this of an Arab-American that's seen in such a positive light -- a really well-rounded character with a sense of humor, a professional life, a family life. Not a goodie-goodie -- a person who has his flaws and his shortcomings -- but a real character, not a stereotype.
Tony Shalhoub
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What they're doing is perpetuating a stereotype.
Paula Nelson
I'd do the crime flashbacks when I felt it was important to kick that character's story up, ... A lot of times what I wanted to do was to say, 'This is who you think this guy is, the stereotype that you have of him,' by showing the crime, and over the course of the series reveal other aspects of him.
Tom Fontana
People have a tendency to stereotype shorts as being a means to an end (for filmmakers to) eventually produce a full-length feature. On the contrary, these short films stand on their own.
Peter Scarlet
The big stereotype . . . that because you are gay you are somehow sexually active, which is false.
James Martin
That plays on the stereotype of the loose and passionate Latin female. It's also sure evidence that such things were going on.
Jim Griffith
What we're doing is dispelling that stereotype as libraries being this place where it's very quiet and you have to tip-toe around.
Peg Burington
This is a point of major social transition, ... The data are now coming out and roiling the idea that boys are the hunters and young girls are the prey. It absolutely defies the stereotype.
James Wagoner
It's demeaning and pejorative. I have fought the [JAP] stereotype my whole life. We would like Bucks County people to know that the word JAP is offensive. When people use the word JAP, they assume that there's nothing inside my brain, that I've done everything just for me.
Cindy Green
The first problem with an insanity defense is you're admitting what you did. It's not a defense that's ever employed with relish. It's difficult to persuade jurors of a lack of criminal responsibility unless you have someone who meets the stereotype of mental illness.
David Hoose
In this case, the stereotype is true, guys just care more about sports. But girls do get into it. I have several girls in my pool, and they are doing well.
Dane Wisher
It gives the players choice as to who they want to talk to. We never want players of all the same stereotype. We want our players to be individuals, not a common blanket.
Barry Gorman
It allows all these countries to represent their cultural traditions, yet this is an apolitical process, beyond the stereotype of the Muslim world. There is a tremendous need for what we can do, and it can only help bring about a healthier environment.
David O'connor
(It) indicates that this stereotype of Muslim Arabs in our society has reached a point where even members of our government have come to embrace it as well as audiences.
Jack Shaheen
Then the coach said to me, 'Is this one of your national team goalies?' and I said, 'No,' ... The stereotype that [college coaches] usually want is the bigger, taller goalie, and she wasn't that at all.
Sally Starr
[As an American, Baker was well treated, although some Chinese stereotype Americans as being fat and loud, while others characterize them as] living in a bubble, unaware of other cultures. ... even when they don't mean it.
Cheryl Baker
I hope there is no stereotype of us, or any other 'rugby wife' as we're known, because we all lead very normal lives. Anyway, who knows what a real footballer's wife is actually like? Everyone is quite individual but we're all genuine, down-to-earth people. And importantly, we're genuine friends.
Viv Mackay
I really liked that my character was Jewish, yet she wasn't a stereotype.
Bebe Neuwirth
I was dismissed from the firm for reasons and beliefs which were not based on facts or evidences but for 'preferences' which resulted from innuendo, assumption, false stereotype and homophobia.
Jon Peter Lewis
He's that Washington stereotype tight end, that's what he's going to be.
Tim Lappano
It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.
Lee Mercer
You recognize that it's a stereotype, and you do your best to break people of those stereotypes.
Josh Beekman
Some of them started getting showy and that's how the stereotype started.
Cindy Green
Everybody has that stereotype; that if your kid gets shot, they're into drugs or they're into crime. That doesn't make it so. My son had an education. He wanted to do something. ... My son was not just a body, whether they think so or not.
Carmen Davis
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
Hugh Downs
Surprisingly, the stereotype that people don't like monolithic clones of McDonald's-type stores is ... so much not the case ... Part of the appeal [of Starbucks] is that it is the same everywhere -- you can go in and know exactly what you're getting.
Robert Meyer
It was racist and offensive because it takes the president of China and connects him to the stereotype of a cook in a Chinese restaurant.
Margaret Fung
This was going to be the follow-up to September 11. We weren't looking in south-east Asia. We were looking at the stereotype of Arab Muslims, so yes it showed creativity on their part.
Vincent Cannistraro
I never wanted to do Harry Potter. I thought it should have stayed as a book. There are some books that should be made into movies and some that shouldn't. Harry Potter is 70% imagination. When the movie comes out, it's going to be such a stereotype for kids. When they think of Harry Potter, they're going to think of what is portrayed on screen.
Haley Joel Osment
People say Utah has this kind of stereotype about them because we're a very homogeneous society. What people fail to realize is, we're also a very inclusive society.
Michael Styles
To some degree, they're going after people who are relatively new to the drinking age, to keep them from mixing a spirit with an energy drink. With the fruit beers, the stereotype is it's marketed toward women. There are just so many other options out there today.
Paul Gatza
They took the largest, wealthiest black county and reduced it to a stereotype of a poor, dangerous black neighborhood. And the irony is the neighborhood isn't even a poor black neighborhood.
Peter Shapiro
Originally, people thought if you operated out of your home it was a step down, but today, it's a very viable option. The erroneous home-based business stereotype of the housewife seeking extra pin money has been replaced by the baby-boomers who seek independence and flexibility.
Hedy Ratner
The stigma of St. Pete as a retirement community is just so long gone. That old stereotype is ancient history. We want that thing buried.
David Goodwin
The advertisement still has to be creative. Additionally, the consumer wants to see the celebrity 'on the job', i.e. in a known role or stereotype.
Achim Von Kirschhofer
Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn't like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.
James Gregory
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.
Chinua Achebe
A lot of people have a negative stereotype. We've had a big push in educating people to know what agriculture and natural science is.
Eunice Foster
The stereotype is that young equals liberal and therefore soft on crime. The stereotype is also black equals liberal and soft on crime. The stereotype is further unmarried parent equals liberal. Therefore, young black waitress with child is a defense juror, supposedly.
Eroll Skyers
You don't have that here. We want to blow that stereotype out of the water.
Ernie Mills
I'm going out into the work force. What is my Duke degree going to look like now? ... People already have ideas of what Duke students are like. It's just adding to the stereotype.
Erica Harper
We?re challenging the stereotype of being a beggar.
Elizabeth Johnson
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