Quotes About Perspective

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I don't think about awards when I set out to do something. If that happens, it's great.

Individual awards are important, but I am not obsessed with them.

You can get money, and you can win awards, and you can be on magazines, but that's not going to make you happy.

I've been in the business for so long that I don't sit home and look at my awards.

Well, I think awards are pretty meaningless.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

I've seen people being in awe of Anurag Kashyap, but I'm not a fangirl.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Living, it's awful for me.

I don't particularly like children. That sounds awful, but I have nothing to say to them.

Someone who didn't do comedy might think it was awful to have someone talking about you. But I just love the attention, even if I'm not there.

If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

When I've got friends who are about to turn 40, I'm like: 'Babe, you're gonna love it, it's the best!'

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?