Outsiders Quotes - Page 14

• The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.

  William Trevor

  Artist, Tools, Talent

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• I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

  Kristen Johnston

  Roles, Freak, Aspect

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• I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people and working out what made them tick, wondering whether I could trust them or not. I went to a lot of schools along the coast in California, made few friends and stayed with aunts, uncles and grandparents while my folks tried to make ends meet. It was tough. We had no money.

  Tobey Maguire

  Uncles, School, Aunt

  "Tobey's Lonely Childhood Will Help Him In Spider-Man Role" by wenn.com, January 31, 2001.

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• We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

  Hugo Weaving

  Lonely, Way, Weaving

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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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• Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

  Stephen H. Segal

  Growing Up, People, Generations

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• I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my life I've been an outsider, and above all, being lonely but never realizing it.

  Martin Scorsese

  Running, Lonely, Struggle

  Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette (1999). “Martin Scorsese: Interviews”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Answers, Profit

  "The Off-White Papers" by Clayton M. Christensen, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Craig Hatkoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

  John Oliver

  Comedian, Helping

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• Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Dad, Reading, School

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

  Paloma Faith

  People, Interesting, Stories

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

  Sade Adu

  Thinking, Feels, Insiders

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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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• I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

  Ethan Embry

  School, Thinking, Trying

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

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

  Isaac Marion

  Writing, Perspective

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• Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Faces, Gypsy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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