Alexandra Robbins Quotes

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Alexandra Robbins

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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • City
  • Acceptance

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Going
  • Industry

• I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.

  

  Adrian Tomine

• One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Serious
  • Worry
  • Humor

• Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.

  

  Olaf Tyaransen
  • Real
  • She
  • Book

• I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Water
  • Doctor
  • Knee

• Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.

  

  V. Raymond Edman
  • Good
  • Future
  • Faith

• Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Form

• It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • God
  • Mind
  • Poverty

• Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

  

  William Hurt
  • Successful
  • Boyfriend

• I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Army
  • Afraid
  • Lion

• I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.

  

  Lily King
  • Family
  • Together
  • Strong

• I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Crazy

• Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • Country
  • Failure

• There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Learning
  • Ideas
  • Failing

• Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

  

  Alexandra Robbins
  • Failing
  • Outsider
  • Indicate