#unusual

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them. ↗

— Delia Smith

#before #being #best #best way #deal

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

I don't perform. Seals perform. ↗

— Morrissey

#musicians #unusual #musician

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #bit #character #crazy #developed

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

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

#column #fired #firing #first #got

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. ↗

— George Grosz

#both #clarity #closely #drawings #every