Unconventional Routes Quotes

One always wonders about roads not taken.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

School was never for me, kinda.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

There's been a myth perpetuated where people think, 'I need to go into consulting, banking, finance, law, or medicine to make a consistently reasonable amount of money.' People are now realizing that's not the case.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

I never went to college. I was pregnant at 23.

In a compass, we got north, south, east and west, right? But in between that, you got things like north-east - now that, to me, is where real life is. Everybody's life is not straight: it's often 30 degrees to your left, or in the hardest part of the reach.

My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

Life takes you down weird paths.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.

There is no one-size-fits-all narrative; everyone's path winds in different ways.

I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny.