Outsiders Quotes - Page 21

• I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

  Hillary Clinton

  President, Firsts, Imagine

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.

  Philip French

  Independent, Genre Is, Cinema

  "Nothing happens, but..." by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.

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• Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Responsibility, Mean, Possibility

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

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• Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Sometimes

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

  Dawn Angelique

  Growing Up, Kids, Choices

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Safe Haven, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

  Marcel Dzama

  Artist, University Degrees, Painting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

  Darren Shan

  Different, Freak, Like Me

  Darren Shan (2014). “The Demonata 1-5 (Lord Loss; Demon Thief; Slawter; Bec; Blood Beast) (The Demonata)”, p.70, HarperCollins UK

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• I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Book, Writing, Age

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

  Greta Salpeter

  Breakfast, Clubs, Gals

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• When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

  John Waters

  President, United States, Young

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.

  Seymour Hersh

  Hands, Circles, Guy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• One of the things we love about Po [Kung Fu Panda] is that he's vulnerable. He's someone that we can all identify with because he has those insecurities. He's an outsider feeling guy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Guy, Feelings, Insecurity

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• The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

  Dan Chaon

  Feelings, Identity, Fiction

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dan Chaon". Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15, 2009.

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• A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, Educational

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• I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

  Elia Kazan

  Struggle, People, Get Up

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• I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into the battery compartment. From an outsider's point of view, it looks like I've got it all wrong.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Views

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• I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

  Edgar Wright

  Years, Wells, County

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

  David Suchet

  Italian, Would Be, Accents

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.

  Luc Sante

  Moving, Fascination, Etc

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• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

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• I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Crazy, Believe

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

  George Carlin

  Real, Boys, Self

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• I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

  Colin Wilson

  Literature, Conflict, Accepting

  Interview with Paul Newman, Abraxas Unbound #7,

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• A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

  Chris Stein

  Hipster, Culture, Today

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