‘Saturday Night Live’ is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. – Jill Scott
I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way. – Ivan Glasenberg
It didn’t matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. – Jhumpa Lahiri
Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress. – Amy Gerstler
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. – Arto Lindsay
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let’s just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. – Barry Watson
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different. – Florence Griffith Joyner
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule. – Matt Bomer
I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different! – Nadia Ali
I find ‘Edward Scissorhands’ a very inspiring movie – it’s one of the first movies about bullying, in a way – about being treated unkindly for being different. – Denise Di Novi
I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, ‘Go paint this because you’ll get paid more,’ you know what I mean? – Jose James
