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Quotes About Unusual

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.
~ Eoin Colfer
Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.
~ Martin Filler
I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
~ Mario Van Peebles
When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
~ Ellie Goulding
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.
~ Kevin A. Ford
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing a character comedy, they haven't learned the characters yet.
~ Greg Daniels
Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
~ Billy Graham
Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.
~ Colin Camerer
I got into dub a long time ago. I was into dub before I even had any interest in reggae or Jamaican songs, Bob Marley, or any of those established artists. I just thought it was such an unusual sound.
~ Bill Laswell
It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.
~ Jennifer Ehle
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
People seldom think of soup for summer, so they are unusual - an interesting, unusual touch for the first course or for dessert. I find cold soups very refreshing. I serve them in cups rather than in bowls, usually, and let people sip them. You don't really need a spoon for soups that are all one consistency.
~ Ruth Glick
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings annually. The emailer has seen something unusual in the sky that he interprets as probable evidence of alien presence.
~ Seth Shostak
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
~ Anne Wojcicki
I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked with. We actually had a rehearsal period before we shot, which is unusual.
~ Ken Leung
The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me.
~ Siri Hustvedt
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
~ Lesli Linka Glatter
On 'Scrubs,' I played a very unusual character who pretty much was defined by saying and doing strange things, so it was easy to improvise around that.
~ Neil Flynn
I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars.
~ Matthew Reilly
A steak is a steak, so I tried to experiment with different side dishes, such as truffle croquettes, and unusual condiments, but I learned that people don't want you to change the steakhouse.
~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten