I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider’s perspective. – Joel Kinnaman
‘The Fifth Gospel’ is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I’m not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research. – Ian Caldwell
You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing. – Jim Brown
When I first started making music, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn’t have a concept. I didn’t think it through. I was just flailing around doing what comes naturally. It took me a really long time to step back and deal with what I was doing with any kind of perspective or self-awareness. – Juliana Hatfield
I read every country’s perspective on an issue. I also play many games like Bridge, Scrabble and Sudoku online. – Indra Nooyi
I don’t think there’s any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it’s always worth writing. – Jami Attenberg
High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world. – John Burnside
I’ve always loved doing covers. Some artists don’t like covers. Some listeners don’t like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It’s easier for me, if I’m starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren’t mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much. – Greg Laswell
From a productivity perspective, prioritization is key. And it’s very easy to focus on clearing the decks of minutia, especially when one’s very busy. – Ivanka Trump
I’ve always been in good shape. I just sucked early in my career from a statistical perspective. – Jake Arrieta
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you’re a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now. – Henning Mankell
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought ‘wow’; she was writing from a black girl’s perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. – Jill Scott
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. – Imre Kertesz
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. – John Lithgow
I like L.A., but it’s just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective. – Joel Kinnaman
I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. – Hope Davis
I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective. – Jochen Zeitz
I kind of quit surfing when I got out of high school, but then a few years ago I started to take it up again. I’m not an expert by any means, but it’s so wonderful to get out in the ocean and get a different perspective on things. – Jeff Bridges
I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions. – James D’arcy
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. – Jonah Goldberg
I’m a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged. – Brandon Stanton
I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it. – Calvin Klein
I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare. – Jodie Foster
The inherited tradition is that we don’t tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It’s told through the president or the lawyer. – Chiwetel Ejiofor
I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger. – Bruce Wilkinson
Other people’s perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don’t. I like being sexy. It’s fun, and I have had a nice little career off it. – Carmen Electra
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack. – Ashwin Sanghi
You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody’s perspective, I think. – Jerry Yang