Pamela Stephenson Quotes

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

I'm never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

To me, point of view is everything.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or even abused, while others feel that my parents, while certainly flawed, also had truly wonderful qualities. And that's the way it should be, because in real life two people can look at the same president and one will see a hero and the other a villain.

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.