Quotes About Perspective

It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never to age and often do our best to avoid sacrifice.

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

I try to get into a headspace where I pretend like this is the first time Im ever hearing this song, and I get into that and I just try to discover it. I found that if I really put my head in that space then I can get into it. I can discover it all over again.

Over the years, I'd hear Jon Stewart disavow being a journalist and say, 'No, I'm a comedian.' I'd be like, 'Stop pretending. You know you're a journalist.'

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

The world is not the prettiest place in this planetary universe.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

There are many pretty people, and many are prettier than me.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

I think you can learn from pretty much everybody if you just open your eyes.

I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.