Hipster Quotes - Page 7

• I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Reading, Writing, Awareness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I live in East Hollywood which is sort of the end of the grit, butting up against Silverlake and Los Feliz which are the refined gentrified hipster zones, which I tend to appreciate when I need to get coffee, but I like living in the grit. I like feeling separate from that elitist civilization in some way, even though I don't really "belong" in the grit either. But I do spend more than half my time now in the desert which is really nice - to be off the grid, remembering that the world is bigger than the city streets.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Nice, Coffee, Appreciate

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• In some contexts in Pakistan maybe a beard is negative. It depends. And in some contexts in America maybe a beard is positive. I think there's certainly lots of hipster communities where having a beard makes me look a little bit less like a, you know, middle-aged fuddy-duddy. And there's some places in Pakistan where having a beard, you know, certain corporate contexts, certain social contexts, where it's not an advantage to have a beard.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, America, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.

  Simon Helberg

  Eye, Cities, Hands

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Hip-hop music, in my opinion, is still very closed-minded, and if you're trying to do something that's too different, you get categorized as trying to do some kind of "alternative hipster" thing.

  Alexander Spit

  Trying, Different, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Littles, Olaf, Way

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It's not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I've had the test for contact lenses, but I haven't found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Ridiculous, Poor, Eyesight

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We've had distressed edges. We've had culottes. We've had high waisted jeans, we've seen the heralding of the new bootcut back again. I'm so sorry to say this to you, but the only way forward is ultra-hipsters, you know? Like super-low cut, low-rider jeans, to the extreme.

  Alexa Chung

  Sorry, Cutting, Way Forward

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  America, Thieves, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.

  John Waters

  Cute, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You got this new breed of hipster chicks and hipster men that don't understand anything about sacrifice. They didn't lay it on the line. People like Cat Power, Tom Waits, they are the last of the beats, the real true philosophers.

  Willis Earl Beal

  Real, Cat, Sacrifice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

  James Ellroy

  Sexy, Mother, Father

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Rocks, Rolling

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• I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

  Anthony Mackie

  Guy, Feel Good, Size

  "How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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• If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

  John Green

  Kids, Favors, Kind

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.47, A&C Black

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• They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, America, Dungeons

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

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• Future hipsters will love me ironically.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

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• I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

  Woody Allen

  Names, Used, Apparel

  "American Apparel settles Woody Allen suit for $5 million" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2009.

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• But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

  John Green

  Sex, Swings, Cigarette

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.21, Penguin

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• We were just looking at ideas of each other.

  John Green

  Ideas

  "Paper Towns". Book by John Green, 2008.

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• In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

  Norman Mailer

  Village, Faces, Facts

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.340, Harvard University Press

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• It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

  John Green

  Optimistic, Numbers, Turns

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• We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

  John Green

  Play, Rivers, Long

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• It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

  John Green

  Parent, Black, World

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.22, A&C Black

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• The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

  John Green

  Blow, Labyrinth, Looking For Alaska Book

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.158, Penguin

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