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Quotes About Unconventional

This was a bit like running into a clan of kilted Scotsmen in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
~ Neal Stephenson
Free from the constraints of racking up high test scores or getting into colleges, students could learn for learning's sake—which was how it ought to be.
~ Neal Stephenson
This is not a Nora Roberts novel.
~ Neal Stephenson
Nothing us normal.
~ Ned Vizzini
Good. Because right now I don't have you pegged as a yuppie. You're something else. I'm not sure what you are, but I'm going to find out." "Cool.
~ Ned Vizzini
A pickup artist must be the exception to the rule. You must not do what everyone else does. Ever.
~ Neil Strauss
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle; he may attempt all three concurrently.
~ Nelson Algren
We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.
~ Fred Schneider
Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.
~ Kyle Kinane
I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'
~ Brad Feld
You won't see many flashy, fancy moves off me but you will see a gritty, hard hitting style, that you won't have seen before from many other people.
~ Pete Dunne
The way I play is not like most people. The moves are more computeresque. They're not the moves that most humans are going to play.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
~ Peter Mayhew
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
~ Harold Prince
What makes Avenged so exciting to me musically is that people either love us or hate us, but nobody sounds like us.
~ Zacky Vengeance
I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.
~ Martin Landau
I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.
~ Wylie Dufresne
I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene.
~ Harmony Korine
Sometimes I bite off a fingernail to use as a toothpick. Nasty.
~ Kelly Macdonald
I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.
~ Christina Ricci
Curly hair is not just a hairstyle: it's kind of a lifestyle. There is something really free and careless about it and loose and kind of naughty. I love it.
~ Inbar Lavi
Many Jedi would raise eyebrows at the thought of meditating in a bar, but Vos had done it before.
~ Christie Golden
Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use. She had suddenly said, "You have too many children, Mr. Pollit.
~ Christina Stead
I have a long way to go before I will be normal again." She burst out laughing. "No one has said you ever were normal, Jacques.
~ Christine Feehan