Robert Frost Quotes

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Think
  • You
  • Outsider

• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Pride

• But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • You
  • See
  • Act

• I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Never
  • Journalism
  • Outsider

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I always felt an outsider.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Always
  • Felt
  • Outsider

• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Future
  • Matter
  • Questions

• I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Weird

• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• I love Paul Rudd.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Paul

• The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.

  

  Harlan Ellison

• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • America
  • Blonde

• Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • English
  • Lyric

• More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Single
  • Inspired

• I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Time
  • Live

• I think more important than law is the hearts of people.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • People
  • Important
  • Law

• I write in character a lot.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Character

• But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Experience
  • Friends

• When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Done
  • Deadline
  • Options

• We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Exploring

• You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

  

  Robert Frost
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