Quotes About Perspective

The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

I personally would rather raise my child in New York. It seems like it would be easier to make sure she or he gets a whole bunch of experience and understanding of the world. But, people in general think it's easier to raise a kid when you don't have so much stuff in your face.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.

What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

I've got two kids who are native New Yorkers. It's kind of astonishing, raising two girls who are full-blooded New Yorkers. It's awesome and scary, because they're so much cooler than me.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

As I ran along, I remember... saying to myself, 'You know, this is really the moon. We're really here... That's the Earth up there.' And I said it two or three times to myself.

I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about 20 years.