Quotes About Perspective

Is punk dressing up in leather jackets? No. It's having a counter-cultural perspective.

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.

We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.

Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.

When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I'd never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that.

One day, I found this book at a used bookstore with 'Satanic Bible' written on the cover, and I thought maybe I should read it and see what it is. I thought it was like a religion, but then I read the book, and what was in it was pure life philosophy - and it was a life philosophy that described how I felt at that point.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

Sometimes I'll write something that's purely autobiographical, and sometimes pure fiction, and sometimes a mix.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.

Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.

Conflict is the pursuit of truth.