Quotes About Perspective

I think we need to stop looking at the file-sharing community with disgust and instead ask ourselves what we can learn from them.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

Criticism of a dish is not a criticism of the cook.

Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

The league has been good to all of us in terms of what we get out of all these TV contracts and everything, so it would be a little disingenuous to complain too much. But if I had my way, we'd take a five-day break at Christmas. I mean it.

Nobody is going to be more disinterested in your work than your own kid.

As for body-shaming, there will always be people who will love chubby people and those who will dislike them.

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.

Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

I don't dispute the accounts of My Lai 4, but I think that anyone who is a student of the war, or anyone who was there, would agree that anything you could imagine happening probably happened.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.

If you are going to try and convince somebody to travel, do it with a small map - the distances look like nothing on a small map.

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.