#alienate

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers. ↗

— John Grisham

#alienate #anything #getting #one thing #pulpit

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#around #certain #certain extent #extent #feel

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77. ↗

— Peter Hammill

#feel #happened #i

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#did #felt #i #never #school

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#alienated #alienation #colleagues #contact #feelings

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties. ↗

— Dick Spring

#because #deal #dialogue #discussion #felt

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. ↗

— Evo Morales

#always #bolivia #came #city #culturally

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population. ↗

— John Olver

#attack #broadly #bush #communities #fifth

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#alienated #conscious #divorced #expressed #feeling

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have. ↗

— Katy Perry

#always #chances #completely #definitely #everyone