Outsiders Quotes - Page 15

• The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Wall, Kids, Islands

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• When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Cities, Jersey, Moved

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Feelings, Insecurity

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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• I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

  Dani Shapiro

  Glasses, Noses, Littles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not, to think of it as sovereign because you're not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Thinking, Space, Giving

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Cups

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders

  Spoken Reasons

  Team, People, Role Models

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• I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It feels great to not be the acne-ridden outsider that I felt like when I was in high school. It's a lot more fun being alive now than it was then, I'll say that much.

  Chris Pine

  Fun, School, Alive

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think all good art is outsider art.

  Scott McClanahan

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  Sade Adu

  Thinking, Feels, Insiders

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• I want every character be an outsider in some way.

  Josh Schwartz

  Character, Want, Way

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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• We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

  Paul Auster

  Cities, Walks, Participating

  "An Interview with Paul Auster" by Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

  Paloma Faith

  People, Interesting, Stories

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• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Oregon, Kind, Grew

  "Longmire’s Katee Sackhoff on finally playing a character who has her shit together". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. July 6, 2012.

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• The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile.

  Catherine Camus

  Impression, Exile

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Friends, Jobs, Together

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• I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

  Isaac Marion

  Writing, Perspective

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• As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  America, Hypocrisy, Kind

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

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

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• There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

  Lawrence Wright

  Country, Believe, People

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• I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Home, School, College

  Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 01, 2011.

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• As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Teenager, People, Pockets

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• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  Karen O

  School, High School

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

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