The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent on its Outsiders. Many Outsiders unify themselves, realize themselves as poets or… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Where do poor young people turn? ISIS has a mission for you to change the world! It's a horrific vision, but it's… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil… — Sacha Gervasi Copy Share Image
The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a… — Russell Jacoby Copy Share Image
Francis [Ford Coppola] was on the cover of Time Magazine for One From The Heart and for owning a studio, and he… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not,… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy;… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've always felt like an outsider across the board, since day one. The challenge has been to simply not pay attention to… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable,… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I think I'm this sort of perpetual outsider, I grew up most of my life in countries that were neither where I… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony;… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like… — Luke Perry Copy Share Image
The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
I've grown up watching a lot of Western genre films on TV, and America is not just a country, but it's one… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference,… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image