Outsiders Quotes - Page 10

• I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

  Michael Arad

  New York, I Love New York, Felt

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• I can't believe the world was created in six days. I do not take Genesis or Revelation literally. I AM OUT. I am alone. I am an outsider for Christ. I will study my Bible, and pray to God in private and alone. I have no other choice.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Choices, World

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• I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

  Cillian Murphy

  Thinking, Mind, Quality

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

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• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Fun, Southern

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• I want to be like Tom Cruise from 'The Outsiders' and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Long, Goes On, Want

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• I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Community, May

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• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Latin, Reality, Break Through

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.

  Anne Rice

  Mean, Kids, College

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• Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

  Colin Wilson

  Want, Driving, Instinct

  Colin Wilson (1982). “The Outsider”, Tarcher

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• In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

  Oscar Handlin

  Expectations, Immigration, Shrinking

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• Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

  Anne Rice

  Success, Real, Congratulations

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• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Writing, Character

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• ... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Organization, Succeed

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• Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.

  Atul Gawande

  Firsts, Poor, Social

  "Medical Report" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 24, 2011.

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• From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Commitment, Perspective, Acting

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Play, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

  T. S. Eliot

  Views, Empathy, Action

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• Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, Prejudice, Alive

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.68, e-artnow

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• Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

  Peter Block

  Peter Block (2003). “The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Character, Self, Criticism

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fearless, Punk, Moved

  "Angelina Jolie Turns 40 - Her 40 Best Quotes" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. June 04, 2015.

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• The outsider hero is hero riding into town, he's the gunslinger, shame - the same thing, he didn't want to do it anymore, he wanted to live a different life but part of who you are sort of haunts you and you can't run away from evil and if you have special skills, and most people are mistreated, which is unfortunately in our world, we always need an equalizer, that type of character to come to our rescue.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Running, Hero, Character

  "Director Antoine Fuqua Talks the Equalizer, Westerns, the Hard R Rating, Changes From the 80s Series, and More on Set". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 25, 2014.

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