Normal Quotes

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.

Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

They weren't pressed together as closely as normal, but his shoulder bumped hers, then remained there. It was very subtle, and possibly even accidental, but it was enough.

All right. Normal rules apply." "Right." The man walked off, leaving us. "What are the normal rules?" I asked. "He walks away and has a tea break and doesn't ask any questions.

Stars now also have problems with drugs, and it can be even harder being so out in the public eye - it's hard for them to keep their sanity and normal self present, but they can do it.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

Reality TV has managed to commodify everything we used to think of as the elements of normal life.

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.

Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

The beatings, the beatings were so normal to me. The abuse was just routine. I didn't wake up the next day and say, 'Dre, why did you hit me?' We never talked about it the next day. Never.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

If you grow up normal, you'll always be normal-I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.

What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

I am proud to be a normal size girl and I want to encourage everyone to be confident at any size.

I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.

I still sing. I don't know if I'm going to sing on 'Glee' or 'New Normal.

I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

It's a normal way of doing business.

I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.