#unusual

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#joe #me #unusual #way

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#big #boots #collect #cowboy #crazy

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing. ↗

— Merrie Spaeth

#i #just #media #most #nothing

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#analysis #bother #does #familiar #familiar things

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#i #i do #know #lot #people

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry. ↗

— Debra Winger

#child #having #i #never #normally

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

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