Quotes About Perspective

Bombay is different to Liverpool, or anywhere, really.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

If young children boo me, that makes my day.

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if I want to read something about Asian-American characters.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Basketball Without Borders gave me an edge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You don't want to see me all the time. You get bored.

I'm so bored by business and money.

I am a little bored of playing negative characters.

If my biggest problem in life was to be healthy, I'd be incredibly bored.

It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

It's very difficult for me to represent a white player. It just is. Look around. There's very few. I represent a player from Bosnia. But, again, he's international. He looks at it different.

Like they say, boss is always right. In case of marriage, wife is always right.

I've lived in Boston.

I used to hate Boston.