Quotes About Perspective

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.

I think there is a certain lack of curiosity when it comes to Canada because it just sort of seems like it's just the North - what could be interesting about that?

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

In the past, the U.S. was the centre of the world, where everything was happening. I think my stories have always sought to question this, maybe even criticise it.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

Two single, young souls can fall in love. What's the big deal? Rather, it's a good thing.

But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls.

I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

I don't want to sound like the old guy, but cynicism is a potential danger. It colors our way of looking at the world.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

I want to stay humble and not sound cocky. But at the same time I don't want to be the little high schooler.

Your limitations create your sound.

Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.

We're a country of five-second sound bites and 30-second commercials. Eight years of one person is just too much.

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.