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• In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the story moving, I needed to distance myself as much as I could from the characters, to try to get to a point where I could view them objectively.

  Hirokazu Koreeda

  Distance, Moving, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

  Stephen Covey

  Responsibility, Reality, Perception

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.26, Mango Media Inc.

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• In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

  Etgar Keret

  War, Wings, People

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Part of an actor's job is to actually adopt the world-view of the character she is playing and to tell the story from that vantage point. If an actor represses large aspects of their personality, they will have a severely limited range and castability. Great actors cultivate effortless access to their subpersonalities. Many acting teachers call this 'freeing your instrument.'

  Jack Lemmon

  Teacher, Jobs, Character

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• We view our Nation's strength and security as a trust, upon which rests the hope of free men everywhere.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Nations, Free Man

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

  James MacDonald

  Father, Giving, Doubt

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• Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.

  Lynne Tillman

  Dog, Boys, Simple

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  W. S. Merwin

  Writing, Mean, Caring

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Writing, Opposites, Monsters

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You witness the artists acting as witnesses, but they provide a point of view that's less monolithic. It's less official in a certain way. Many artists are speaking in the first person singular, as a reaction to dubbed-over media commentary. The thought is: "Enough with how we're represented by the media. Let me tell the story."

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Artist, Media, Acting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

  Emmanuel Lubezki

  Artist, Giving, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I think Islam, for me, helped me see how similar we all are. If my views are not traditional it's because of being raised in American society. Things that are taboo in an Islamic society are magnified in this society: drinking, extramarital affairs, all kinds of stuff like that. I have to apply the human aspect of all our culture dictates . . .

  Chali 2na

  Drinking, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Canada and America are very, very different. It's true that we share a language and many customs. But Americans have a very different view of the world.

  Joseph Boyden

  America, Different, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.

  Jess Walter

  Writing, Character, Past

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Loss, Thinking, Interesting

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people who actually spend time talking to Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and I find the longer I report in Washington, the mushier and less conclusive my own views are. I like it that way.

  Jon Weisman

  Objectivity, Talking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

  Stef Penney

  Narrative, Chapters, Point Of View

  Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Grieving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

  Will Self

  Tolerance, Degrees, March

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• I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

  Laszlo Nemes

  Believe, Choices, Point Of View

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, School, Boards

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

  Annalee Newitz

  Agriculture, World, Natural

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

  Norman Lock

  Writing, Use, Benefits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

  T.C. Boyle

  Mother, Father, Lying

  Source: therumpus.net

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