Quotes About Isolation

Id been touring in Japan and Australia and was due to play in America when Covid struck. I couldnt get back to England for a whole week, so I ended up spending it in Miami on my own.

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

For a while, I didn't want to leave the house. Eventually, I just got sick of being indoors. Now I take steps not to be noticed when I don't want to be. For instance, I live near Westfield shopping centre, so I won't go there at the weekend.

When I was ten and in fifth grade, I read all of 'Robinson Crusoe' in one weekend.

The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

I think it accrues to Hawaii's benefit that I have friends in Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin. We're already geographically isolated, so it's really critical that we don't become politically isolated.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.

I hated going to the mall, I hated shopping, I hated pool parties. It was just the little things that made me realize, like, maybe I am a little different than everyone.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

From the age of 17, I lived the life of a hermit and dedicated myself to gym life, first in the South Bronx and then back in England. I was in a bubble and I bypassed a lot of popular culture.