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The Outsider isn't [Albert] Camus, but in The Outsider there are parts of Camus. There's this impression of exile. -- Catherine Camus
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain." -- Aleksandar Hemon
What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards. -- Colin Wilson
Trevisan is one of the few Paso Robles producers to recognize the potential of the region's old-vine Zinfandel, which he blends with Syrah and Mourvedre and labels with fanciful names such as Problem Child, the Outsider and Cherry Red. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. -- Ville Valo
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider. -- Sade Adu
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. -- Bill Hicks
I was the punk outsider who nobody messed with. I was fearless. At 16, I graduated and moved out. -- Angelina Jolie
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider. -- Elton John
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another. -- Alan Cumming
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. -- Rupert Murdoch
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity. -- J. Anthony Lukas
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up. -- Jimmy Connors
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider. -- Willem Dafoe
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like. -- Amy Grant
I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider. -- Lasse Hallstrom
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. -- Learned Hand
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice. -- Margaret Cho
No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her. -- Amish Tripathi
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable. -- Nick Cave
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. -- Salman Rushdie
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province. -- Tan Le
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland. -- Colm Toibin
The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity. -- Scott Anderson
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. -- Nick Cave
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers. -- Ira Glass
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. -- Martin Jacques
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving. -- Gary Zukav
As a kid, I grew up on a farm in Florida, and I did what most little kids do. I played a little baseball, did a few other things like that, but I always had the sense of being an outsider, and it wasn't until I saw pictures in the magazines that a couple other guys skate, I thought, 'Wow, that's for me,' you know? -- Rodney Mullen
I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You're not going to see me at the Academy Awards 'Vanity Fair' party any time soon. I'm not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party. -- Kathy Griffin
I always felt an outsider. -- J. K. Rowling
Inside I'll always be an outsider -- Eminem
Donald Trump is a genuine outsider. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump is a genuine outsider. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've always been interested in the outsider. -- Charles de Lint
You have to be an outsider to write, -- Martin Cruz Smith
I don't think I'm an outsider at all. -- Christina Ricci
I think all good art is outsider art. -- Scott McClanahan
I was a complete outsider in high school. -- Karen O
I've been such an outsider my whole life. -- Thom Mayne
I've always been an outsider; a displaced person. -- Siobhan Fahey
An outsider's point of view is always handy. -- Pat Oliphant
An outsider can see some things much better. -- Anil Kapoor
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. -- Wes Anderson
I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider. -- Joan Rivers
I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider. -- Robert Crumb
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider. -- John Oliver
As a kid I just felt like an outsider. -- Marilyn Manson
I know what it feels like to be an outsider. -- Judith Light
I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider. -- Ethel Waters
I want every character be an outsider in some way. -- Josh Schwartz
In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider ... -- Simone de Beauvoir
I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider. -- Vivienne Westwood
I've been an outsider all my life - I don't care. -- Chloe Sevigny
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here. -- Michael Arad
Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider. -- Jesse Eisenberg
As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider. -- Shawn Ashmore
I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. -- Barry Unsworth
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. -- Isaac Marion
I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward. -- Jeremy Paxman
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. -- Colin Wilson
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth. -- Robert Henri
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common. -- Alice Hoffman
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. -- Robert Frost
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always. -- Joanne Harris
I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. -- Margaret Cho
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth. -- Ally Carter
Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way. -- Christina Stead
He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside. -- Joan Didion
I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart. -- Tift Merritt
I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president. -- Hillary Clinton
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal. -- Vera Wang
If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more. -- Anderson Cooper
The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me. -- Idina Menzel
I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it. -- Mark E. Smith
I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is. -- Russell Peters
It wasn't easy for me to start in Bollywood because I was an outsider. -- Esha Gupta
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian. -- Paul Merton
Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge. -- Brian Posehn
When I was about 11, 12, we moved to Jersey City. Everywhere I go I'm an outsider. -- Michelle Rodriguez
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting. -- Marcel Dzama
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. -- Ben Mendelsohn
I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers. -- Karen Russell
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. -- Jhonen Vasquez
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. -- Banana Yoshimoto
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. -- Steven Spielberg
I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders. -- John Zorn
How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew? -- Peter Block
Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing. -- Ethan Embry
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider. -- Matt Drudge
I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider. -- Jon Heder
I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to. -- Ang Lee
I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ]. -- Greta Salpeter
It's easy to gravitate toward something negative as opposed to something positive, especially if you're an outsider. -- Blake Judd
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider. -- Chirlane McCray
She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider. -- Jeremy Camp
Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider. -- Ryan Kwanten
I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default. -- Shirley Manson
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone. -- Meg Cabot
I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules. -- Klaus Nomi
I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity. -- Kumail Nanjiani
I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner. -- Peter Doig
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. -- Diane Abbott
I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider. -- Mika
I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider. -- Dani Shapiro
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that. -- Nick Lowe
My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group. -- Michael Burry
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character. -- Aasif Mandvi
It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in. -- Asne Seierstad
Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet. -- Mara Liasson
A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement. -- Howard Raiffa
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career. -- David LaChapelle
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. -- Garry Wills
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life. -- Jackie Kennedy
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. -- H. P. Lovecraft
I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider. -- Donald Trump
As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree. -- Zygmunt Bauman

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