Quotes About Conformity

As a foreign company and offshore entity we will not be obliged to comply with the rules of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and countries like that.

The name Laurel is such a strange choice because I think when you look at me there's not one person that says 'Oh yeah, I could see you as a Laurel.'

I kind of had that Parma, Ohio, mentality that after high school, you go to college. Then after college, you get a job; then you get a family. And after that, you just stick around Parma.

Growing up in the eighties, you could go from one style in a movie to another style, and that was okay. In the nineties, you had to obey your niche. You had to follow the code and never step outside of exactly what you're doing.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

A good number of my friends are married, which seems very old-fashioned.

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules.

To be in Society is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

People die of common sense

More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.