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Source: The Right to Feel Bad

“I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.”

Faces Findings Instinct Mood Atmosphere Odd Oppressed Location Eerie

“When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.”

Thinking Looks Novel Finished Odd Theme Guise

Author:Richard Russo

“Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.”

Knows World Looks Stills Different Matter Today Next Strange One Day Fame Yesterday Odd Next Day Things That Matter Odd Things

Author:Matt Damon

“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time's forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.”

Heart Kind May Littles Book Seems Might Company Knowing Missing Originals Profound Forgotten Ancient Occasions Odd Pens Echoes Obscure Storyteller Caves Rare Occasion

Author:A. Curtiss

“I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.”

People Way Study Odd Improvisation

Author:Roscoe Mitchell

“Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit, but we kind of stumbled on writing "Joseph's Lullaby." The irony is when I originally wrote the song, it was called "Mary's Lullaby." I wrote it from Mary's standpoint and it was in a higher key, a real falsetto, and it just wasn't right. One day, the producer's wife said, "Well, it's kind of odd that you're singing from Mary's perspective, being the guy. Why don't you do Joseph?”

Writing Wells Kind Littles Said Real Whole Guy Song Bits Records Wife Perspective Keys Grew Higher One Day Little Bit Grew Up Singing Intention Producers Irony Odd Mary Standpoint Lullaby Falsetto

Author:Bart Millard

“The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.”

“It's always made me feel odd when I'd get a Dove Award for an instrumental album that has nothing to do with gospel. When I think of gospel music, I think of spreading the Good News with words. But maybe it's just because I was heralded once upon a time as one of theirs. The category of instrumental music seems sort of important to the big picture, but I felt a little embarrassed at the same time.”

Thinking Feels Littles Made Important Bigs Seems Felt News Albums Odd Awards Categories Embarrassed Good News Dove Once Upon A Time Big Picture Gospel Music Instrumental Music

Author:Phil Keaggy

“My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.”

Would Be Father House Environment Objects Lovers Tables Instruments Musical Odd Kitchen Mum Phases Machinery Kitchen Table Valve Music Lover Amplifiers Jukebox

Author:Squarepusher

“All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.”

Jobs Used Boys Used To Be Odd Embarrassing

Author:Method Man

“Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.”

Looks Character Film Certain Scripts Odd

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I have issues with inheritance tax, particularly coming from a migrant family. My dad has worked incredibly hard all his life, so it seems odd to me that someone who has gone through that experience and has managed to save then gets taxed for dying.”

Hard Seems Gone Issues Dying Dad Taxes My Dad Odd Inheritance Migrants Inheritance Tax

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.”

Knows Sometimes Philosophy Use Speech Everyday Odd Odd Things

Author:Stephen Fry

“The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.”

Needs Enough Helping Universe Strange Truth Is Odd Wondrous Charlatans

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop their own little habits. They have a certain way that they like to live their life, and nothing is going to interrupt that.”

Thinking Way Littles Certain Bits Crazy Habit Dad Little Bit Odd

Author:Simon Bird

“The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?”

Kind Heaven Odd Neighborhood Gates Pearly Gates

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'”

Book Records Labels Odd Record Labels

Author:Jewel

“What triggers a poem for me is not the same as what triggers an essay. My mind is geared now to looking for, or to watching out for, the image that attracts my attention or the phrase or the strange juxtaposition that strikes me bodily, or an odd question or supposition.”

Mind Attention Strange Strikes Odd Phrases Essays Triggers Juxtaposition Supposition

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“Personally, my daughter's wedding gave me a tremendous pleasure. And the wedding was a radiant event and I enjoyed it. I was afraid I'd cry. I'm given to crying at odd times, and I was very much afraid of the emotionalism of that moment, but I didn't even come close to crying.”

Moments Given Pleasure Events Cry Daughter Enjoyed Odd My Daughter That Moment Radiant

Author:Rod Serling

“Musicians, actors, writers - we're all neurotic, odd people who've lucked into accidental careers. So I just don't like being around public figures with that sense of entitlement, it just seems unhealthy, and it strips so much potential for them to develop as a human being.”

People Humans Seems Actors Human Beings Careers Figures Musician Odd Neurotic Entitlement Unhealthy Public Figures Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Moby

“The WRITER of memoir gets incoming weirdness in very odd ways. I was recently talking to a memoir writer whose work just went meteoric - but some of the comments and communications and gestures she gets in the wake of that success are stunningly and atrociously over-personal, as if suddenly people feel like they know her and her life intimately, and have permission to transgress all her "life" boundaries.”

People Ifs Knows Way Feels Talking Communication Boundaries Memoir Odd Comment Gestures Permission Weirdness

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.”

Ifs War Sometimes Bigs Seems Might Conflict News Odd Angle Coverage News Coverage

Author:William Finnegan

“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”

Reason Silence Written Stones Hills Odd Immense Muse Silence Is Invited Delighted Gallery Kenya Indebted Procession Carver

Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women.”

Play Goal Interesting Odd

Author:Jillian Bell

“I've also done things that put me in odd situations.”

Done Situation Odd

Author:Lily King

“I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.”

Humans May Suffering Difficult Sound Animal Deals Odd Human Suffering Animal Suffering

Author:Rigoberto Gonzalez

“There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.”

People Needs Young Artist Generations Pure Sitting Paid Debt Odd Salary

Author:Astra Taylor

“I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.”

Facts Cures Intimacy Odd Realms Cows Superstitions Grotesque Scientific Facts Shrimp

Author:Anna Journey

“The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.”

Feels Facts Deals Hardest Odd Incomplete

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.”

Ideas Whole Stories Reading Hundred Lists Odd Unusual

Author:Joshuah Bearman

“I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice..." I don't think I've ever abandoned one... the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.”

Thinking Looks Girl Bits Lines Week Subjects Arms Messages Draws Red Hot Dresses Seeking Odd Gas Yellow Abandoned Chicks Umbrella Lyrical Hipster Scarves Furry Hot Girl

Author:Sophie Blackall

“Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.”

Stories Happens New York Source Things Happen Odd Odd Things

Author:Sophie Blackall

“For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.”

Years Different Problem Used Paid Odd Shakes Pills Medication

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.”

Littles Used Rooms Havens Green Screens Supposed To Be Odd Props

Author:Laura Vandervoort

“Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.”

People Knows Two Running Moving Responsibility Hundred Odd Enterprise Keep It Moving

Author:William Monahan

“I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.”

Writing Firsts Novel Percent Odd Screenplays Screenwriting

Author:William Monahan

“I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.”

People Way Two Different Parent Memoir Odd Eccentric

Author:Francine du Plessix Gray

“It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.”

Problem Pain Hell Share Odd

Book:A White House Diary

Source: A White House Diary

“I don't understand the whole Christian conservativism doesn't make sense to me because I was raised very Christian and its kind of an odd thing but my parents, my family is also very conservative in their own way but I understand the bible and I studied Christianity very well and I don't see where the hatred of gays comes from because it really defeats Christ's purpose.”

Way Wells Kind Whole Christian Purpose Parent Christ Christianity Gay My Family Hatred Raised Defeat Conservative Make Sense Odd Odd Things

Author:Margaret Cho

“I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.”

Knows Want Littles Film Actors Sound Watches Heard Genius Who I Am Odd Tape Sitcom Conceited Cool Things Scorsese Everybody Loves Raymond

Author:Ray Romano

“I was living in Japan at the time, Shoko Asahara was an important figure and you could say his name and people would immediately know who you were talking about but since being back in America I've realized most people don't know who he is, which I find odd because he was far worse than Charles Manson. He killed many more people than Manson and was actually trying to kill thousands but wasn't careful enough in his process.”

People Knows Trying Important Enough America Names Process Talking Figures Careful Odd Japan Manson

Author:Brad Warner

“Even if no learning to speak of was involved in locking my mental term onto doorknobs, it is odd to say that therefore my possession of a doorknob concept is innate, just as it is odd to say that my head-injury-caused singing is innate.”

Ifs Speak Term Involved Singing Concepts Possession Odd Injury Innate Head Injuries

Author:David Papineau

“I feel like the only person who has a chance against Alejandro González Iñárritu is Lenny Abrahamson. [The Room] was very awkward, very odd, very uncomfortable as it should have been. And then it became very beautiful. It tugged all the emotional chords beautifully.”

Feels Should Persons Has Beens Beautiful Chance Rooms Emotional Should Have Odd Uncomfortable Awkward Chords Should Have Been Very Beautiful

Author:Bun B

“Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is a hostile verdict and the international fame is warranted after all (given that Mann modeled his protagonist so closely on himself, it would be quite odd if he had intended Aschenbach's literary inferiority to be a fixed part of the interpretation).”

Ifs Different Stories Would Be Fall Given Style Fame International Celebrate Narrative Odd Fixed Interpretation Hostile Inferiority Protagonists Glee Verdict Narrators

Author:Philip Kitcher

“The person that always comes to mind, and it's odd now because we've become pals, is Ben Folds. I've always considered him like a musical older brother, from afar, in the sense that I always felt I had a much better understanding of what he was singing about five years after I was listening to it.”

Years Mind Persons Felt Understanding Five Brother Listening Singing Musical Odd Five Years Folds Afar Older Brother Pals

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.”

“Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.”

Knows Wells Stills Shows Middle Odd Going Away Verses Satanic Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie

“It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.”

Thinking Years Kind Feelings Pay Attention Five Skins Odd Five Years Think Of You Old You Five Year Olds

Author:Anna Quindlen

“He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.”

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