Quotes About Perspective

I'd love to see the world without liquor for a week.

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever reason.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

There was a time my parents never listened to me. They wouldn't have forced me into marriage had they heard me out. But now, they support me.

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!

You go and you see a piece of art; you're looking at it outside of you. When you listen to a song, the singer's voice is being put together in your own head. The effort that you as the listener has is part of the artwork in a sense.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I have said it somewhere - our literary lived lives are as important as our literally lived lives.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

It's always been, whether at school or now, that I am Pippa and Catherine's little brother.

I wanted people not to look at me as a little girl, but I was a little girl so how could I ask the world not to?

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

Being a little kid, you don't hear much about racism. You figure everybody's the same. If racism isn't taught, you're just a black kid and a white kid together.

That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things, too.

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

We all have our own little thing, I think.

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Sometimes we players don't appreciate the little things.