Quotes About Perspective

and she supposed that it was perhaps not fair to quarrel with someone on the basis of what you thought they were thinking.

But it was something to do with the paintings Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune—so long as you didn't actually die of it.

SonsuzluÄŸun yan?nda günler ve haftalar?n ne anlam? ola bilirdi ki?... Bu bir anlamda insana huzur veren bir fikirdi. EÄŸer sonsuz zamana sahip olsayd?k, yaÅŸad???m?z anlar çok daha hafif yükler verirdi bize.

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I don't," he said bluntly. "But I saw that fiction"—he pronounced the word gingerly, as though it were something dangerous—"is perhaps not, as I had thought, merely an inducement to idleness and wicked fancy.

Un libro —cualquier libro— tenía un significado que iba mucho más allá de su contenido para un hombre que hubiera vivido en un tiempo en el que se tenía muy poco acceso a la palabra escrita

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.

About "historians", family or otherwise:"Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-for the most part, they think what they are meant to think and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smoke screen of artifacts and paper.

I'd lived long enough to realize that fear wasn't usually fatal—at least not by itself.

But whoever said funerals were for the benefit of the living had had the right of it.

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

I feel more Asian than anything.

I didn't see myself in Jia Jhangke or Wong Kar-Wai films. Those are Asian filmmakers, and I very much am an American filmmaker.

There was never a point where I thought, 'I'm going to do something Asian American.'

I just feel like, especially after 'Crazy Rich Asians,' gentrification isn't affecting art. I am actually more inspired by art now than ever.

You have to keep time aside for life, which I haven't done enough over the past couple years.

We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.

It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.

There's a reason I'm on a show called 'Younger,' because I still think... in every aspect of my life, I'm five or 10 years behind in my mind.

I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life.