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I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. -- Elton John
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. -- Martha Plimpton
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity. -- Sandra Bullock
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. -- Marilyn Hacker
It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations. -- Laurie Graham
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. -- Roy Lichtenstein
At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity. -- Susan Dey
At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere. -- Katharine Graham
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity. -- Lynn Shelton
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families. -- Mark Haddon
Acting for me was hard enough without having to think of the accent. And also, when I was auditioning for stuff I would walk into the room with an Australian accent, and I would do the audition in an American accent, and they would invariably say, 'Yeah, it's that good, but I can still hear the oddity coming through.' -- Jonathan LaPaglia
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. -- Trevor Baylis
...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable. -- Ruth Dugdall
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. -- Libba Bray
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. -- George Eliot
Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. -- Kurt Tucholsky
Speechless, castaway and wrya spellbound oddity am Imy feet are locked upon the claymy gaze is locked upon the sky -- Cecilia Dart Thornton
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". -- Russell Brand
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky. -- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. -- Amor Towles
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that. -- Carrie Brownstein
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science. -- William Poundstone
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. -- Eugene Mirman
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty. -- Robert Trivers
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action. -- Rex Stout

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