Quotes About Perspective

I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.

I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.

My mom was one of the moms who was like, 'You are so handsome why aren't you modeling? I am handsome, but model... let's not get crazy.

So while most people dealt with the scale every Monday at the Berea training facility nervous about how high the number was going to be, I was the one that was nervous about how low the number was going to be.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

It's only money, honey.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

It's not always about the money.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

When I became a monk, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.

My own schooldays convince me that I would not send a child of mine to be educated by a grinning monk any more than I would send him to a mullah in Iran.

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

I'm not a massive spender. I look at the bank balance building, but it just looks like Monopoly money, really.

I don't believe any more that WBC has a monopoly on truth.

Labour doesn't have a monopoly on non-white people.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.