Alice Munro Quotes

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.

I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different.

If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.

Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

I was told by so many people that I wouldn't succeed because I was too different. Ironically, the very reason that people watch my channel and travel thousands of miles to see a show... is because it's different. God didn't send us to Earth to just blend in. We are here to share what makes us unique.

I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

I don't follow nobody. If people want to follow me, it's because they see talent.

You have to realize that people are always going to be confused or sometimes threatened by someone who has the confidence to do something different.

So Am I' is about loving yourself, being different, being an outcast and not fitting in the format that society wants to put us in - just celebrating what really makes you different.

If you don't stick out then how do you expect to be remembered? I want to be one of those guys who is actually remembered.

I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.

Of course I know I am not the average footballer. But I'd be lying if I said I set out to be different, I didn't set out to go against the grain.

I always tried to be different from everyone else. Then I found out about boxing. That was the way I could be different from everyone else. I always went against the crowd.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

In the Big City, different feels good, like blazing a trail. In a small town, though, different can feel like trying real hard to look special. Or even like rubbing your neighbor's nose in your success.