Weirdness Quotes - Page 3

• My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

  Sara Paxton

  Children, Hollywood, Actors

  "Sara Paxton on The Innkeepers, Shark Night 3-D and Julia Roberts Marathons". Interview with Julie Miller, June 23, 2011.

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• You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Nervous

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

  Holly Black

  Mean, Good Things

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.

  Alice Sebold

  People, Want, Very Happy

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• As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Thinking, Upset

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I've developed a bit of a fascination with John Denver. I always thought he was kind of tacky and somewhat revolting and had a kind of simplistic weirdness, but on second listen, he actually did have an incredible voice, and the blatant naiveté of his work is straight-edge, in a way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Voice, Tacky, Fascination

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• I've always been into the not stereotypical hunk guy - I'm into dorky, like I call it adorkable. And I think that a lot of girls are into that. I think there's something disarming about it and endearing and also puts you at ease and there's an attractiveness there - it's like a good sense of humor, self-deprecating, weirdness. You know? Because I think we all have that in ourselves, but we just try to hide it because it's not "cool," but a lot of people can kind of relate to that feeling or the outsider feeling.

  Amanda Crew

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Fantasy, Ends

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

  Brian Kernighan

  Data, Easier, Regularity

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• Punk rock was the first thing I found in my life that made me feel acceptable. The thing that got me into punk rock was the idea, "You're fine just the way you are." It sounds kind of dorky, but you don't have to make excuses for who you are or what you do. When you find something like punk rock, not only is it okay to feel that way - you should embrace your weirdness. The world is totally messed up, and punk rock was a way to see that and work with it without candy-coating it. It was saying, "Yeah, the world is this way, but you can still do something about it. Take energy from that."

  John Porcellino

  Energy, World, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guess what I'm trying to say is that whatever weirdness was going to be in there, I felt, had to be earned. And it had to be required by the emotional needs of the book.

  George Saunders

  Book, Emotional, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

  Peter Boghossian

  Christian, Aka, Religion

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• For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.

  Annie Baker

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

  Dario Robleto

  Art, Generosity, Curiosity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Dream, California, People

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus on Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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• There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone.

  B. J. Porter

  Play, People, Comedian

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I like to talk about weirdness. We all have strange thoughts and ideas, and when you really trust someone you can express them. And they can express them to you, and that's one of the joys of life.

  Rebecca Stead

  Joy, Strange, Joy Of Life

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately, and have permission to transgress all her "life" boundaries.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Communication, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we want to call "too weird" because of our own intellectual sensibilities. The truth is they are not. So we come up with interpretations to eliminate the weirdness of the biblical worldview that makes us uncomfortable. Problem solved!

  Michael S. Heiser

  Biblical, Intellectual, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling of like, I've never been to another place like it. It doesn't even feel Californian. Even how it's laid out physically, it's very strange. Like, the weather patterns don't make sense. They do scientifically, but in a practical way it doesn't make any sense. And that weirdness, it really creates some weird thing in the air. But it is you know, on a practical level, it's very expensive, and it's a very business-oriented place, too, and there's a lot of that stuff going on.

  Ty Segall

  Believe, Feelings, Strange

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.

  Allan Loeb

  Writing, Ideas, Scripts

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

  Alison Gopnik

  Children, Teenage, Answers

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• Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Dream, Beach

  "Interview: Mark Hoppus On Blink-182's New Album, 'California'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 27, 2016.

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