Erin O'Connor

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

English Model

Shaun Tan

By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular.

Australian Artist

Zoya Akhtar

It is nice to be out there, amongst contemporaries on a global scale. You meet different people, see different things, meet different producers, eventually grow to collaborate in different ways. The world is getting smaller. It's nice not to be insular.

Indian Director

Kehinde Wiley

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.

American Artist

Vikram Bhatt

We have got so caught up in an insular world that swings between our phones, our computers and our heads that we have forgotten to look out of the window, and say, 'Hey! It's raining.

Georgina Chapman

I think it's important for whatever you are doing, even if it's a collection, to seek outside advice. If your world becomes too insular, it limits your creativity.

English Designer

Samantha Harvey

As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

English Author

Mark Hamill

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

American Actor

Goldwin Smith

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

Canadian Historian

Mitski

I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.

Japanese Musician

Indicates a person or group has limited cultural interaction or understanding.

Cultural Narrowness

Suggests unwillingness to accept new ideas or ways of thinking.

Resistance to Change

Highlights a self-contained or self-absorbed perspective, ignoring external influences.

Inward Focus

Used to describe species that exist solely in one location, often an island.

Geographical Isolation

Indicates something peculiar to an isolated place, perhaps due to limited influence or evolution.

Unique Characteristics

Refers to businesses that operate independently from the rest of the market.

Market Separation

Can relate to individuals who separate themselves from their peers or social groups.

Lonely Standing

 as there are today. So even in a place that we think of as very culturally insular, right, even there, you've got a large-scale migration. So there is zero, zero truth to the statement that the world is governed by right wing, xenophobic populists that are anti-immigrant.

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