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  • Oddly enough, I never studied writing. I studied almost everything except writing. -- Joss Whedon
  • Oddly enough, I find the best hostages are the live ones. - Karl -- Kelley Armstrong
  • Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure. -- Grant Tinker
  • Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father. -- Jamie Wyeth
  • Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense. -- Paul Scheer
  • I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon -- Tom Berenger
  • I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon. -- Tom Berenger
  • Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms. -- Beth Moore
  • Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from. -- Robin Trower
  • Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. -- Bobby Sherman
  • Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. -- Lev Grossman
  • Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television. -- Bill Hader
  • Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger. -- Emily Henderson
  • Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away. -- Jonathan Pryce
  • What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode. I say what comes into my head. -- Amy Chua
  • Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. -- Joanna Trollope
  • Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs over the delicate womanly matter of our personal expenditures. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
  • She sees ghosts,? said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,? I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn't thought he'd be a moviegoer. -- Patricia Briggs
  • It's certainly easy to mock some things ... Oddly enough though I've never found it easy to mock anything of value. Only things that are tawdry and fatuous - perhaps it's just me. -- Stephen Fry
  • I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. -- Robert Morgan
  • Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. -- Teri Garr
  • The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it. -- Shane Dawson
  • Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.''They didn't!''They did.''When?''Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds. -- Sandra Balzo
  • Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines. -- Robert Davi
  • Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well. -- J. August Richards
  • Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness. -- Lois Lowry
  • Anything that activates the joy center in the brain makes you happy, and therefore protects you. Oddly enough, that's what they do in 'Harry Potter': The nurse gives the kids chocolates when they've been near the Dementors! -- Jane Siberry
  • Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it. -- Emily VanCamp
  • Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well. -- Ellen Muth
  • Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination. -- Jean-Claude Ellena
  • Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. -- Toby Young
  • Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others. -- Barry Humphries
  • Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different. -- Bucky Sinister
  • Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results. -- Jack Campbell
  • Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo. -- James Patterson
  • I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself. -- Robert Indiana
  • Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough. -- Stephen Fry
  • When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained. -- Viggo Mortensen
  • I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one. -- Patrick Dempsey
  • I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. -- Will Ferrell
  • As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too. -- Ric Ocasek
  • I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped. -- Kristen Stewart
  • There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad. -- Jack Nicholson
  • Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. -- Henry Miller
  • Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. -- Christopher Morley
  • Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated. -- Tyler Cowen
  • I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable. -- Julianne Moore
  • It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. -- Mark Rydell
  • When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before. -- Sebastian Junger
  • Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight. -- Jerry Saltz
  • Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
  • Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. -- Stacy Schiff
  • You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
  • When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies. -- Mary Roach
  • Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. -- Matthew Perry
  • Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens. -- Stacy Schiff
  • Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly. -- Galen Strawson
  • Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. -- Alex Kapranos
  • He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals. -- Patricia Briggs
  • Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment. -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. -- David Duchovny
  • Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything. -- Patricia Briggs
  • I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped. -- Andy Dick
  • I actually oddly have done another robot motion capture. I did Sonny in I, Robot. -- Alan Tudyk
  • Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. -- E.A.A. Wilson
  • I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone. -- Jay Mohr
  • Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural. -- Linda Ronstadt
  • Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? -- Joy Adamson
  • Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. -- Max Lucado
  • the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. -- Joseph Barbera
  • While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way. -- Cassandra Clare
  • I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly. -- Darynda Jones
  • How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears! -- Shirley Bassey
  • You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. -- Sydney Pollack
  • Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
  • I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though. -- Seth Rogen
  • I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy. -- Brooklyn Decker
  • I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it. -- Damian Lewis
  • After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin. -- Barbara Steele
  • Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away. -- Bono
  • All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. -- Thom Gunn
  • Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else. -- Sarah Thornton
  • You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough, -- Anne Carson
  • Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly. -- Kenneth Branagh
  • I stand in my own way on a daily basis. I don't know if this is something I will ever overcome completely, and I'm oddly okay with that. -- Josh McDermitt
  • Yeah I know you're a creature of the night. Bringer of death, sucker of blood, needer of tans, so on and so forth. And oddly enough, I'm still unimpressed. -- Kiersten White
  • You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You've got to be carefully taught. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. -- Alexandre Dumas
  • I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous. -- Jean Rhys
  • Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. -- Alan Bradley
  • My fans firstly [inspire me]. They make me want to be a better person and really motivate me when times get tough. Also Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" and, oddly enough, hubcaps. -- Ashley Rickards
  • By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed. -- Gore Vidal
  • With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials. -- Joel Miller
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  • To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed. -- Warren Christopher
  • When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. -- Lindsey Buckingham
  • One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should. -- Gretchen Rubin
  • In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master. -- Sylvia Plath
  • I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things. -- Marilynne Robinson
  • People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan. -- Christine Quinn
  • I do think, oddly, that a comedic actor has a better chance of pulling off a dramatic role than a great dramatic actor has of being able to pull off a highly comedic role. -- Lizzy Caplan
  • Well oddly enough, I liken the years at MGM, and I was there for about eight years, to doing stock, what we used to call repertory or stock, playing a whole bunch of different roles. -- Angela Lansbury
  • Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. -- Susan Cain
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