Outsiders Quotes - Page 8

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

I always felt an outsider.

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

Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an outsider.

As I set out to begin photographing Shanghai, I encountered the insider/outsider phenomena in the most personal of ways. You would walk into an old neighborhood in the center of city, and people would begin to point at you. People would begin to talk about you, spreading the word about the outsider who has wandered into their midst, look at him, he's got a camera, what's he doing, is this allowed, is this OK, how should be respond to him.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about what's going on, which is something you can't do if you're totally caught up in the moment.

There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.

The real freedom comes to us when we can learn to go inside and connect with that voice. Then, we're not relying on outsiders.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few times, and I sort of figured out where he came from, why he went away, and why he came back. The thing that I have to tap into for Parker is in some way the outsider. If I can tap into the outsider, I can write about Parker, and if I can't, I can't.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

If you're the creative, artsy one who goes off to study painting or filmmaking, you're often seen as an outsider partly because traditionally, it has never been seen as a way to have a career.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.

The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an “I”, but it is not his true “I”.’ His main business is to find his way back to himself.