Quotes About Belonging

I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

I never thought of playing for any other franchise other than CSK. Chennai is my second home. Fans here have adopted me as one of their own.

It probably wasn't until I was a freshman in high school and I met the people who became my gaming group that I finally found people who were weird like I was: that loved reading and playing games and not just watching a science fiction or fantasy movie but talking all about it.

When you're with a team and you're comfortable there, everything seems O.K. You play a lot of minutes. You make the playoffs. You don't miss practice - all of that stuff. So when you leave for the summer, you're like, 'See you next year!' You expect maybe some changes, but nothing involving you.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

Shanghai, the city where I was born and spent my first four and a half years. It's not necessarily the most pleasant or most comforting place, but I have blood memory there, my core was formed there, so I need to go back often, or else I become empty, lost, without meaning.

I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.

I just want my party back, please.

I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to play at the national level.

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.

It is obviously pleasing to see your name associated with La Nazionale.

If you've never seen people taking the pledge of allegiance for the first time as U.S. Citizens, it will move you: a room full of people who can really appreciate what I was lucky enough to grow up with, simply by being born in Brooklyn.

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the team.

I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.

I'm not from this Earth - I'm from Pluto. I moved to Seattle when I was 2.

Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

I acknowledge that I'm really fortunate to have found pockets of people all through my life who've accepted me.

To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.