Quotes About Perspective

I thought I would hate New York, but I love New York. I almost hate to say that being from Chicago.

I think there's a big difference between New York and Chicago.

There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

Everyone has material about cats, and everyone has material about family and what they think about their government or childhood.

What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now.

I didn't really get a normal childhood.

I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

I don't like children.

If I were to say anything to my 18-year-old self, it would be, 'Loosen up. Chill out.'

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn't mean that there aren't short-term discomforts and adjustments.

I think that what's unique about sci-fi - at least from the view of a lot of Chinese writers - is that sci-fi is least-rooted in the particular culture that they're writing from.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

When I was 18 in Cold Chisel, I didn't want to make it to 21. Who wants to be that old?

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have to keep an eye on the male side.

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.