Outsiders Quotes - Page 14

• Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

  Anton Chekhov

  Children, Expression, Silence

  "Enemies". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Character, Thinking, Serious

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I love playing outsiders, I always do.

  Antony Sher

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• Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

  Henry Adams

  Inferiority, Likes, Invisible

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.101, Booklassic

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• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

  John Oliver

  Comedian, Helping

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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• He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, People, Different

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• Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he was fresh off of Apocalypse [Now] and The Godfather films, so he was at the absolute top of his game and legend [in The Outsiders ].

  Rob Lowe

  Heart, Games, Magazines

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We knew we were doing something that would make an impact, because of Francis [Ford Coppola], but I don't think we were surprised by how well the movie [The Outsiders] did, but I think we would all say we were surprised at how well we all did coming out of it.

  Rob Lowe

  Thinking, Impact, Coming Out

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it makes you a translator: there are all kinds of things that American parents know about life in America ,and about being a kid in America, that non-American parents don't know, and in many cases it falls on the kid to tell them, and also to field questions from Americans about their parents' native country.

  Elif Batuman

  Country, Fall, Kids

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

  Mika

  Writing, People, Pops

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Moments, Caught Up

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.

  James Lasdun

  Thinking, America, Viewpoints

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

  Mika

  Teenager, Loner, Littles

  "Mika's New Album Out Today!". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 22, 2009.

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• I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

  John Lydon

  Class, Challenges, Illness

  Source: www.axs.com

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• In so many roles I've played the outsider. As an outsider, you have more energy to succeed simply because you are an outsider. There are scripts floating around but they're not coming my way and I think that I am getting a little bit too old to play Napoleon. But if I was ever offered the role I would grab it.

  David Suchet

  Thinking, Play, Energy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stuff, Lines, Mainstream

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• To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

  Junot Diaz

  Accomplishment, Lists, Failing

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• I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

  Paul Merton

  Thinking, Interesting, Comedian

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• Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  United States, Population, Refugee

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wbgo.org. February 10, 2017.

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• The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

  Rob Lowe

  Wings, Giving, West

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Benjamin Disraeli spoke of the 'two nations' in Britain he was perfectly right, only the working classes were not exactly a nation. But the gap in behavioral standards and in outlook, and of course in standards of living, were enormous. And in course of time, at least in countries such as Britain, the working classes more or less adopted and have become assimilated to the standards of the so-called 'gentle' classes. That is assimilation.The working class has hardly been able to govern, but they are no longer outsiders in relation to the state as they were before.

  Norbert Elias

  Country, Relation, Assimilation

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Faces, Gypsy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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