Quotes About Outsider

I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. In Hollywood, it's very clear that you either play by the rules or make up your own. And I wanted to do it my way.

There's a classic appeal in the outsider as the central character of fiction, because that person is in the position to be the observer. People who are very active are not as observant. They don't see as much and they don't often think as much. They're too busy doing.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could only see the thin surface veneer of things; she couldn't get beneath it to the real heart of anything.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

She's not royalty for Christ's sake. She's a Grape.

am an outsider in my own country.

a noncol. A useless misfit, an outsider. A loner lacking college degrees.

Even when she was dressed up she didn't look like a chosen person.

That other kids considered him weird didn't bother Dev; being weird was just synonymous with being smarter than they were

I have to admit, I was a little bit of a misfit.

I'm not a player; I'm an alien.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

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.

The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

This man was different from all others; he was forbidden fruit, the outsider. Her mother had trained her well, but she had never told her what to do if a man set her heart to throbbing like the hooves of a runaway horse.

I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

Cam has been an outsider for his entire life. Even when he lived with the Rom. I think he's always secretly hoped he could someday find a place where he would belong. But until he met you, it didn't occur to him that it might not be a place he was looking for, but a person.