Outsiders Quotes - Page 24

• I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.

  Ann Hood

  Growing Up, Reading, Book

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• I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

  David LaChapelle

  Circles, Photographer, Scene

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• I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sweet, Real, School

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive for the insider -and this took some getting used to- is to allow yourself to be attacked, and then co-opt your most ferocious attackers, and their best ideas. The effect on the system as a whole is to make it more stable, because everyone winds up working on its behalf.

  Michael Lewis

  Wind, Ideas, Incentives

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• Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say. In a way, this stepping outside, in an attempt to judge enough to create a duplicate of it, makes you an outsider. . . . I think it's healthy for a writer to feel like an outsider. If you feel like an insider you get committed to a partisan view, you begin to defend interests, so you wind up not really empathizing with all mankind.

  John Updike

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

  Margaret Cho

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Gay, Bisexual, People

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

  Alan Cumming

  Thinking, Feels, Hard

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• I believe strongly that a group's potential is eventually limited by the strength of its leadership. I'm an outsider, but it still looks to me like the leadership in the Java w orld is Fouled Up Beyond ALL Recognition. Java ISVs don't know whether to listen to Mom or Dad. Everybody knows IBM should just buy Sun and clean up the mess. When are they going to do it?

  Eric Sink

  Mom, Dad, Believe

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• The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.

  Daisy Goodwin

  Infuriating, Disadvantages, Asks

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• I think that part of being a good journalist, part of being an awake member of the world youre in, is to view yourself as an outsider, and I always have, to some degree.

  Mark Leibovich

  Thinking, Views, Degrees

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• I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Groups, Members, Feels

  "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Two, America, Depth

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• The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Establishment

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends.

  Gary Cooper

  Attitude, Real, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

  Robert Crumb

  "R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1". Interview with Ted Widmer, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Teenager, School, Felt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Insane, Felt, Industry

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

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• What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

  Michael Moorcock

  Land, Names, Usual

  "New Worlds (No. 4)". Science fiction anthology edited by David S. Garnett with afterword by‎ Michael Moorcock, 1994.

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• I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

  Karen Russell

  Training, Felt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

  Lance Bass

  Believe, Feels, Our Lives

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• I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.

  Lily King

  Strong, Childhood, Feelings

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don't feel sexy, I don't feel like - I can't go out every night on Friday and I can't connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.

  Emeli Sande

  Friday, Sexy, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

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