Quotes About Perspective

I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville.

You can have 10 nice comments today, and it's that one nasty comment that you're gonna hang on to.

I don't want to get to a point where I consider the national team a club team.

Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.

It doesn't matter to me, because in Europe I used to play for my national team... I was one of the best players and I start from the bench. For a European player, it means nothing. If I'm going to have the minutes, it doesn't matter to me if I'm going to start.

It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.

I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.

Authors have a nationality; books do not.

It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.

I think it's very difficult to make people care about natives in another country.

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.

I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.

It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Conway and Mead

Being depressed means you are trying to see a colorful world through gray filtered eyes

He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people.