"Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have."

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Source : "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

Diane Abbott

#Outsiders Quotes #Insight Quotes

“I used up every cent I earned as an actress.”
“In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.”

Source : Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr
“Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people as if nothing matters. They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.”
“Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.”
“If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.”

Source : Rachel Joyce (2012). “The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry”, p.292, Random House
“I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.”
“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].”

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