Ann Leckie Quotes

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

I don't mind not being cool.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

I love being not cool.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I don't know anybody as creative and unique and off the wall as Dia Frampton. She's always asking me, 'Am I too weird?' I just tell her, 'People don't think you're weird, they think you're cool.'

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

You can pull off anything if you have the right attitude. Being cool is whatever you think it is. Own your style.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

Never apologise for not being someone else. You're bound to find something you're good at, even if it's only writing stories.

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you want. If you wanna wear meat suits like Lady Gaga, good. She's freaking amazing! She's doing that, and she's unbelievable. I can wear T-shirts and still be great, too. So that's just what I'm proving to people.

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

I think the biggest thing I've learned is to not really worry what people will say or think about what you wear. You have to wear what feels good on you, what you feel comfortable in. And I've just learned to not really care.

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.