“I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are, and all those schools that come up and their way of looking at things that people strive to incorporate into what they write. I don't even know what they are. Because I sense from a distance that I don't want to know. And therefore even if I had no politics, actual politics, my cultural point of view is hopelessly out of date with the modern literary sensibility. Which is nihilistic, and ironic, detached, cool, and cowardly.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantWritingSchoolReligiousViewsModernDistanceStriveCome UpPoint Of ViewIronicSensibilityCowardlyDetachedNihilist Author:Mark Helprin
“We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.” MenNeedsDifferentRunningKidsJobsVoiceViewsCompanyPositionOfficeTablesValuablePoint Of ViewDesperateGuts Author:Mika Brzezinski
“If you can hold the tension of opposite points of view in your intimate relationships with people, instead of making somebody right and somebody wrong, you are really taking an evolutionary step.” PeopleIfsViewsStepsOppositesPoint Of ViewIntimateTensionIntimate Relationships Author:Connie Zweig
“I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you want to explore the deepest, most truthful way to express a point of view, or whatever the character is thinking, or whatever emotion you're trying to convey. I think with the different media it's just about what muscles you use to express that.” ThinkingWayWantTryingDifferentEndsCharacterUseArtistGoalViewsEmotionCareersMediaUltimatePoint Of ViewPerformingMusclesTruthfulUltimate GoalPerforming ArtsPerforming Artist Author:Audra McDonald
“If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.” PeopleIfsKnowsHumansDifferentViewsFiveEventsComplicatedPoint Of ViewInterviewsDimensionsDifferent PeoplesIncidentsDifferent Points Of View Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“There's the instability of my attitude as an artist, the instability of our perception of the world, and the idea that with this mix, you never know exactly what's the point of view of the filmmaker. This breaks the stability of the belief that a filmmaker is somebody who has a logical relationship with his own material. These elements create this atmosphere that I find more interesting than a normal atmosphere, based only on the characters.” KnowsWorldIdeasCharacterArtistBeliefInterestingViewsAttitudeBreakMaterialsElementsNormalPerceptionPoint Of ViewAtmosphereFilmmakerLogicalStabilityMy AttitudeInstabilityPerception Of The World Author:Albert Serra
“What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?” MenTryingMadeViewsHollywoodPoint Of ViewGenreCinemaClassicChicksGhettoChick Flick Author:Anna Biller
“I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.” WorldHumansFilmViewsTeachArgumentPoint Of ViewHuman ExperienceLinearNazareth Author:Elia Suleiman
“To think of a film from the point of view of a tank barrel is already so inhumanly positioned. This is when film can reveal itself scandalously.” ThinkingFilmViewsPoint Of ViewTanksBarrels Author:Elia Suleiman
“Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an authoritarian demagogic point of view, nativist, anti-immigrant, racism, bigotry that he appeals to.” KindCultureRacismPoint Of ViewBigotry Author:Carl Bernstein
“You'd think that it was really hard for me to turn into North Carolina prostitute, but I didn't think of her like that. I just thought there were a lot of similarities. She loves art and she loves beautiful things, and in that regard, she's a girl, I'm a girl. We love beautiful things, we want adventure, we just want to be loved. She just really wants a family and to be safe. I think everyone wants that. I just came from it from that point of view rather than, "Oh, this girl is so different from me. How on Earth am I going to play her?"” ThinkingArtDifferentEarthBeautifulGirlLove IsAdventurePoint Of ViewBeautiful ThingsSimilarity Author:Ana Mulvoy-Ten
“Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European civilization. Then there was the First World War. That was the beginning of the end. That civilization has been in a decline ever since. But from the American triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.” WorldWarAgeWonderfulRevolutionWesternPoint Of ViewWar Of The WorldsFirst World War Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting and I love actors so I think they can probably sense that. They also know that I understand what their process is, having done it myself. The thing I come back to over and over again is that for most people who are not analyzing it from a critical point of view, most iconic film moments are actor moments. We show up to commune with another human being and their experience. We don't show up necessarily to watch a really cool dolly shot.” PeopleThinkingDoneMomentsFilmActingPoint Of ViewFearfulReally CoolIconic Author:Matt Ross
“I take it as a real compliment that people believe that I can in some ways mine the disenfranchised, the marginalized, the somewhat off-center - psychologically speaking - people in our society, and bring a real humanity to them, and make people see what would otherwise be a person that you would hate. Find a reason to love them and see the world from their point of view.” PeopleWorldBelieveRealReasonHateHumanityPoint Of ViewCompliment Author:Walton Goggins
“It's often said that elephants are the most human of animals - there's something comical about their acquiescence, and tragic also. The long elephant poem - I was trying to write from the point of view of someone who had been seduced by the logic of his punishers and who, in a kind of awful way, could reproduce the very logic that had put him in this predicament in the first place. And maybe, in some kind of minor way, that's something I feel about myself, or maybe about all selves, that they fall in love with the thing that oppresses them.” WritingTryingKindLongFallAnimalLogicFalling In LovePoint Of ViewTragicComical Author:Dan Chiasson
“I think we are constantly asked day in and day out to find the things that we find frustrating or inspiring or that we're passionate about, and attack it from that angle. I don't like being lumped into the idea of being media, or liberal media for that point of view. I am not trained as a journalist.” ThinkingPassionatePoint Of ViewJournalistFrustratingBeing Me Author:Jordan Klepper
“I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I'm a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the experience of the Barack Obama. I have an African mother and a white father and I feel like I have a different experience of being a black person as a result of that identity than someone who is from the descendants of slaves.” KindMeanDifferentPoliticalMotherFatherBlackIdentitySlavePoint Of ViewBarack Author:Lydia Polgreen
“FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president, but they often have terms that transcend partisan transfers of power at the White House. Firing an FBI director is a major problem from the point of view of a president who is already facing significant questions about investigations already underway.” ProblemHousePresidentTermPleasurePoint Of ViewSignificantFbi Author:Stephen Farnsworth
“I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of the editors are women, and these are books written for the female gaze. And so my point of view - the way I looked at fandom and publishing and writing - was all about women. So for me that's what was natural, that's what was comfortable. And then I moved over to comics. And all of a sudden it was... Pardon the expression, it was a sausage fest.” WritingBookRomanceNaturalNovelFemaleMovedPoint Of ViewPublishingRomance Novel Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it. It is content related. Ultimately what they want to control and police is the content. They're liberals! They want to eliminate opposing points of view. They do it with political correctness, which is censorship. They do it in the Drive-By Media by simply ignoring all kinds of news that is not palatable or it conflicts with their worldview, they just ignore it and don't even cover it. It's inarguable.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalInternetConflictPolicePoint Of ViewAll KindsCensorshipWorldviewPolitical Correctness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.” ThinkingReasonSpiritBrokenPoint Of ViewPhenomenonInfidelityHuman Spirit Author:Esther Perel
“The is a lot of anti-sexism coming from my point of view as a woman who deals with it every day. I think sexism is a form of discrimination. It is similar to other forms of discrimination. I think people should feel empowered to not take s**t from anyone.” PeopleThinkingPoint Of ViewDiscriminationSexismEmpowered Author:Juliana Hatfield
“From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to nothing about my family beyond 100 years.” My FamilyPoint Of View Author:David Remnick
“Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.” PeopleReasonDreamRunningOpportunityGrowthJusticeChanceEconomyMagicEconomicEqualSocial JusticeBottomPoint Of ViewLawyerEducateEconomic GrowthEducation SystemEqual OpportunityCompetitivenessGood Education Author:Bill Gates
“In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me.” PeopleWritingBeliefReligiousNovelPoint Of View Author:Allegra Goodman
“I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery.” ThinkingTryingTeachNovelSuccessfulPoint Of ViewWasting TimeVehicle Author:Allegra Goodman
“You have a right to protest. But I don't quite understand why anybody thinks it's a good idea to deny somebody else the right to express his or her point of view.” ThinkingPoint Of ViewProtest Author:Bernie Sanders
“You're the hero of your own story. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever. When I let go of those ideas it was easier to see my childhood from different points of view.” DifferentEasyPowerfulForeverChildhoodHeroLetting GoPoint Of ViewThings HappenDifferent Place Author:Baron Vaughn
“I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong. What is it that positions her as a force to be reckoned with? And I think it's because there's an expectation from the get-go that she isn't. If you're not starting from a deficit as a point of view, but you're starting from an assumption that says, "Well, this is what women really are," then it's a really freeing experience as an actor and as a woman.” ThinkingSometimesFilmStrongExpectationsPoint Of ViewAssumptionHard TimesStrong WomenConsensus Author:Connie Nielsen
“When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.” WritingCharacterPurposeWindowHorsePoint Of View Author:Robin Hobb
“People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual's impacts are over estimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. That's why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything.” PeopleEnoughPoliticalPolicyPerspectiveEvolutionCapitalismPoint Of ViewApathyRail Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“One might ask the question: Is the mortgage interest deduction doing a better job, a worse job, if it's supposed to promote homeownership and savings? Because home ownership is the biggest form of savings in this country. Different people will look at that data and draw different conclusions, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can pull out of USAFacts and develop a point of view about.” PeopleKindDifferentCountryHomeInterestPoint Of ViewConclusionOwnershipMortgage Author:Steve Ballmer
“I remember periods where we didn't even have beats in our club sets, but people kept dancing. The beat wasn't even necessary, because it was a biokinetic experience - that's our metaphor for the dance and the body and all its expressions. From today's point of view, this would be totally impossible.” PeopleRememberImpossibleDancingMetaphorPoint Of View Author:Thomas Koner
“We need to have points of view from lots of different types of people. People who have different backgrounds, different parts of the world, who maybe perceive gender differently. We're in this time where we have social media, we have the ability to share so much, that I think that we need to create more space and more opportunity for people that are just outside of the typical cliched binary roles.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentOpportunityAbilityShareSocial MediaGenderPoint Of ViewPerceiveBinary Author:Brie Larson
“I want to say that Russia is developing along a democratic path, this is without question so. No one should have any doubts about that. The fact that, amidst political rivalry and some other domestic developments, we see things happen here that are typical of other countries, I do not see anything unusual in it. We have rallies, opposition rallies. And people here have the right to express their point of view. However, if people, while expressing their views, break the current legislation, the effective law in place, then of course, the law enforcement agencies try to restore order.” PeopleTryingCountryPoliticalBreakPathDoubtDemocraticPoint Of ViewThings HappenUnusualLaw EnforcementRivalry Author:Vladimir Putin
“I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages take on the character's sound. I don't want the reader to be aware of me, writing.” WritingCharacterIndividualAttitudeFocusScenePoint Of View Author:Elmore Leonard
“My wife told me, "Listen, you have to do something big, beautiful story." I remember that I read The Shack script and I told her that there is a big message over here, and as a Jew, I read the script, and I didn't see anything that connects to religion. It's not about religion, it's about faith, it's about God, and I connected with it, because from my point of view, there is God in this world.” WorldBeautifulRememberWifeJewMy WifePoint Of ViewShack Author:Aviv Alush
“I still go to the conventions, and I like to hear the point of view of people today. I'm a little afraid they're being brainwashed by this new pop-culture. I think it's not really elevating our lives like it did in the good old days of Hollywood, where you had a happy ending. They used to criticize happy endings, but really, what's the point of going to a film if you have to come out hating your fellow man?” PeopleThinkingMenTodayFilmHatePoint Of ViewCriticizeHate YouHappy EndingsBrainwashed Author:Ray Harryhausen
“I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.” ThinkingDoneEnoughHelpingHousePartyInfluenceRepublicanConservativePoint Of ViewRepublican PartyBully Author:Rand Paul
“Anyone with a point of view loves it when they sway someone who disagrees with their point of view. I don't think that's a noble endeavor, though. And I don't think, as an endeavor, you really ever have a chance.” ThinkingChancePoint Of ViewDisagree Author:Todd Snider
“There are four accounts of the gospel itself! The momentous events of the conception, birth, life, teaching, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth are too vast to be adequately viewed from one angle alone. Just as we need several points of view to "see" a person's face, so we need these varied emphases and angles to gain the full perspective of all God wants us to understand.” JesusTeachingPerspectiveBirthPoint Of ViewResurrectionWant U Author:Christopher J. H. Wright
“Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; stronger to a negative point of view. But our venge was, I mean if you listen to Irish language, it's very complicated but it's very poetic.” MeanLanguageTakenNegativeStrongerComplicatedPoint Of ViewPoeticGaelic Author:Gavin Friday
“I think feminism has always been global. I think there's feminism everywhere throughout the world. I think, though, for Western feminism and for American feminism, it not so surprisingly continues to center Western feminism and American feminism. And I think the biggest hurdle American feminists have in terms of taking a more global approach is that too often when you hear American feminists talk about international feminism or women in other countries, it kind of goes along with this condescending point of view like we have to save the women of such-and-such country; we have to help them.” ThinkingWorldKindCountryHelpingTermFeminismWesternFeministPoint Of ViewHurdleCondescending Author:Jessica Valenti
“The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my imagination they should feel uncomfortable when they're in the store, if there's no mahogany paneling, there's nothing that's welcoming. This is a ladies' paradise. And that thinking goes into the design of the store, the fitting rooms, the fabric, the display. It's all from the lady's point of view. It has nothing to do with men.” ThinkingMenKindImaginationSecretDesignPoint Of ViewWelcomeUncomfortableMy ImaginationFitting Author:Les Wexner
“The idea for me is that if the movie connects with you the way I want it to connect with you, you should be experiencing both the horror and the wonder as a child would. From a child's point of view. When we're kids, brutality registers differently than when we are adults. Because as adults, we get too used to violence.” ChildrenKidsWonderViolenceHorrorPoint Of View Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I think the most important thing is to, without belligerence, stand up for what want. Argue compellingly if someone tries to change your script. Yeah, legally they can if they want to. But rather than give up, as some of the writers do, and just wail about how your script got rewritten, it's much more difficult - but well within the realm of possibility - to argue very sincerely, calmly, and reasonably from your point of view, such that the director or the producer might decide, "All right, let's do it that way."” ThinkingGivingTryingImportantDifficultPossibilityGiving UpPoint Of ViewArguingProducersSincerelyRealm Of Possibility Author:Shane Black
“Even if people hate my other movies, and hate me, or whatever, I think from this point of view, Postal is the most important movie after September 11. It's not respecting any edge, any border, any nation, any religion - it's an all-type offender. I think that only if everybody gets a little pissed about something then you will start thinking about your situation.” PeopleThinkingImportantHateSituationPoint Of ViewSeptemberSeptember 11Hate MeThinking About You Author:Uwe Boll
“I think the harsh reviews helped, in that I spent way more energy in the preproduction and development. From this point of view, I'm very thankful for the harsh critics. I still think the critics were unnecessarily insulting in a lot of things, but I think it helped.” ThinkingEnergyCriticsPoint Of ViewHarshInsultingVery Thankful Author:Uwe Boll
“I think sometimes when people start doing improv there's some regression towards trying to replicate the "good" improvisers that they've read about in their improv books or heard about from their teachers. That's understandable, because they're trying to learn technique and stuff, but I actually think that my favorite performers are ones who have unique improv technique but also have a unique point of view that you can feel with them and their performances.” PeopleThinkingTryingBookSometimesTeacherUniqueMy FavoritePoint Of View Author:Zach Woods
“This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. I like Louis C.K.'s stuff or Bill Burr's stuff. I feel like there's comedy where someone will think of something that they think will work comedically, and then they reverse engineer that point of view so they can say that funny thing. The comedians I like, it could be an allusion, but it feels like their point of view comes first and then the jokes are a reflection of what they actually believe, or are frightened of, or are curious about, or are interested in.” ThinkingBelieveInterestingComedyJokesReflectionPoint Of ViewCuriousComedianPretentiousAllusion Author:Zach Woods