Quotes About Perspective

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

I never tried forcing anyone to understand me. Everybody has their own opinion. But I will always be happy the way I am.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

To be a foreigner may be an advantage but disadvantage as well. It was advantage for me for sure.

Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

Sometimes we forget football is, first and foremost, entertainment. Sometimes we consider it a more important matter. It is but, at the same time, it is not.

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

I am the foremost expert on what Cory Stewart believes.

Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.

You just have to forgive them for being men.