“When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.” WritingTryingMayPersonsSaidReasonDonePerfectCreativityDependsAdvantageAverageCraftsPermanentOddTemporaryUsualIsolatedFierceAwkwardIntrovertDisadvantagesAverage PersonSaid And DoneIntroversionSocially AwkwardAdvantages And DisadvantagesHopes In LifeOdd One Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.” KindDifferentFeltWaterStyleFishesOddDifferent KindsLife StyleClose FamilyOdd One Author:Janet McTeer
“If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.” IfsSmartAssIdiotOddSmart AssOdd One Author:Ricky Gervais
“I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.” OddOutsidersGarbageDefaultOdd One Author:Shirley Manson
“Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.” KnowsWellsJobsThreatHearingTerroristOddRiceFbiRetrospectOdd One Author:Howard Fineman
“The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.' The handkerchief paused. 'I could tell you apart from the beginning. You're quite different to each other, you know.' Perhaps he could tell, in the obvious ways. The odd one was Rose; the other odd one was Briony.” KnowsWayDifferentAbleFineTomorrowRoseObviousOddForeheadsBruisesHandkerchiefsOuchOdd One Book:Chime Source: Chime
“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.” LooksGuyCastsViolentOddConventionalOutsidersBad GuysOdd One Author:Willem Dafoe