Non-Traditional Quotes

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.

I'm very different from other politicians.

I've never been a big believer in formal education.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.

I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

I'm an outsider by instinct.

I can't help but do things my own way.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

I just try to go outside the box. In fact, I go outside the box so much I go... 'What box!'

I did go to school - my kind of school. When I was a kid I went out ... and you meet people. You talk to them. Anybody says something that makes sense, it stays with you, rubs off on you. That kind of school.

I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.

I always liked different things, rare things.

Not all knowledge comes from college.

Tennis is not really a traditional Olympic sport.

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

I am no police, I don't even have any educational degree, but I have a degree in life management.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.