Sarah Chalke Quotes

It's amazing how much things can get exaggerated.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I don't believe in sensationalism, but I do believe in the sensational.

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.

I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

People take everything out of proportion. Everybody loves to stir something. If you listen to everything you hear, there's a lot of different directions you'd be leaning.

I went to UMass-Amherst and was like, 'I want to work in news, I want to be a journalist.' Then I got there and was like, 'what kind of crap is this?' They inflate everything. It will be like snowing outside, like just a little bit, and they are like 'Giant storm coming, batten down the hatches!' and I just didn't like that aspect of it.

The primacy of preaching over reporting inevitably leads journalism down a path of hyperbole, distortion and outright fabrication.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

Report makes dangers greater then they be.

Reality bears no relationship to the super-heated rhetoric.

Never a man to understate matters

They were cherry-picking the information that we provided to use whatever pieces of it that fit their overall interpretation. Worse than that, they were dropping qualifiers and distorting some of the information that we provided to make it seem even more alarmist and dangerous than the information that we were giving them.