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“Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.”

Thinking Men Humans Human Beings Views Deals Amount Civilization Point Of View Insects Fleas Mosquitoes

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.”

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Author:Andre Dubus

“Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.”

Ifs Children Seems Politics Views Point Of View Ignorant Things To Do

Author:Sting

“But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.”

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Author:David Lloyd

“I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.”

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Author:David Lloyd

“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.”

Trying Differences Views Audience Comedy Materials Depends Essentials Tragedy Point Of View Clever Emphasis

Author:George P. Baker

“With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.”

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Author:William Boyd

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“I think you're always subjective because you always have a point of view, but I'm always sort of curious about what is the point of view I don't agree with. There is a truth in that because there always is.”

Thinking Views Agree Point Of View Curious Subjective

Author:Margaret Brown

“I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.”

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Author:Oliver Jeffers

“From an over-arching point-of-view, in war there is heroism on both sides. Obviously, the victor gets the spoils, the victor gets to write history, but there's heroism and compassion on both sides, and to me that's very important.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“One of the things in the Mary Shelley [Frankenstein] is that the creature tells his story, so this begins with the creature's point of view. So, it literally starts with the creature opening his eyes and is born - but is obviously in his 30s. But because they're the creator and the created we thought it would be really interesting if they could look at each other every other night and play each other's roles.”

Ifs Looks Play Stories Would Be Eye Night Born Interesting Views Roles Creatures Creator Point Of View Opening His Eyes Mary Really Interesting Shelley

Author:Danny Boyle

“Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.”

Way Character Together Actors Views Pieces Fit Essentials Smart Logic Scripts Details Point Of View Handle Checks Very Smart Collaborators Chronology

Author:Christopher Nolan

“The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?”

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Author:Christopher Nolan

“The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.”

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Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Since I've started to star in pictures I have always managed to retain my singularity of purpose when I got into the business, which was to be an artist, as an actor, more than anything else. But to get the certain kind of role you want, you have to be in a certain position in the business and it's dog-eat-dog and it gets very hairy and you can lose your point of view sometimes.”

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Author:Bruce Dern

“I like to believe that most human beings go about things with a point of view that they're just doing what they feel like they need to do at that time. Sometimes people make bad decisions, but it's not evil, not malicious.”

People Needs Feels Believe Humans Sometimes Evil Human Beings Decision Views Point Of View Malicious Bad Decision

Author:Dane DeHaan

“In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.”

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Author:Ingrid Bergman

“In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.”

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Author:Keira Knightley

“I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.”

Writing Language Force Views Pay Attention Point Of View

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.”

People Stills Enough Problem Views Remains Point Of View Treated Overwhelming Public Health

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I'd been assured, at age 21 or so, by a well-known editor who saw the first part of The Secret History in what was basically its final form, that it would never be published because "no woman has ever written a successful novel from a male point of view."”

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Author:Donna Tartt

“You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.”

Has Beens Realizing Views Point Of View Brainwashing

Author:Morton T. Kelsey

“From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.”

I Can Political Views Point Of View Bothered Because I Can

Author:Rupert Everett

“Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.”

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Book:Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)

Source: Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)

“Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.”

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Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.”

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Author:Alan Kay

“Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.”

“Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.”

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Author:Paul Kurtz

“The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.”

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Book:On War

Source: On War

“The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.”

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Book:Crystallizing Public Opinion

Source: Crystallizing Public Opinion

“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

“To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.”

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Author:Ameen Rihani

“From an evolutionary point of view, sex is really just a reward mechanism to encourage us to pass on our genetic material.”

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Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.”

“We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him and the story he's telling. Considering how old the world is, we learn very little about its history, which I think is a good thing.”

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Author:Neal Stephenson

“I mean, if I went into my closet, I could find a previous draft and try to figure that out, but it takes a long time for me to find the voice to tell a story in. I was working from other points of view for a couple years there.”

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Author:Alice Sebold

“Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.”

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Author:Anne Tyler

“It's hard to explain why exactly, but I think that when I began writing plays, it was from an actor's point of view more than anything. I had the feeling that if you put yourself in the position of the actor on stage and write from that perspective, it would give you a certain advantage in terms of being inside of the play.”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.”

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Author:Signe Baumane

“I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.”

Knows Writing Whole Views Point Of View Tone Articles

Author:Nora Ephron

“I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.”

Feelings Views Stress Point Of View

Author:Jacob Lawrence

“History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.”

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Author:Geoffrey Elton

“Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.”

Should Views Speech Point Of View Free Speech Censored

Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we are dealing with a virus which can be transported and transmitted under certain conditions which favor or limit its transportation or transmission: on the other hand with ideas, religions, and doctrines, which can be described as germs, benevolent or malevolent, according to the point of view one takes up. These germs can either remain at their source and be sterile, or emerge in the spreading of infection.”

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Author:Andre Siegfried

“African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would say that French film is all European film, or Italian film is all European film. And in the same way that those places have different filmmakers that speak to different issues, all the countries in Africa have that too.”

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Author:Elvis Mitchell

“There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.”

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Author:Jerusha Hess

“It's a different point of view on the world and it's different issues and it's important. It's healthy to have both, and more and more women are becoming of aware of that. And when you are aware of how strong of an impact it has on people - it changes things.”

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Author:Nadine Labaki

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