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• The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

  Robert Simonds

  Marketing, Hollywood, Distribution

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Spring, Perspective

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• I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.

  Katie Holmes

  Girl, Running, Stupid

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• My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Past, Guy, Wells

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• An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

  Frank Bruno

  Congratulations, Eagles, Letters

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• The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

  Asger Jorn

  Inspire, Important, Different

  Letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley, 1970.

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• That's a deep change in priorities. People are much less political today. They have found other values of life. We are developing normal attitudes, a normal set of priorities. We are growing out of our childhood.

  Tom Segev

  Attitude, People, Childhood

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• Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

  Sara Nelson

  Reading, Writing, People

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• From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

  Dan Gillerman

  Country, Israel, Waiting

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• Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.

  Steve Almond

  Expectations, Velocity, Able

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• Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Spring, Years, Dry

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• It's a lot more common now for someone to know a Mormon rather than just know of Mormons out in Utah, ... We seem more normal. We're not as exotic.

  Brigham Young

  Utah, Exotic, Common

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• It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Radical Change

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• The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.237, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• We call someone a saint in a world in which everyone is abnormal. The normal person becomes extraordinary. But there's nothing extraordinary about being a saint, that's just someone who's somewhat online with life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Saint, Abnormal, World

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• I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Way

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• I like searching for the collision detection boundaries, finding invincibility glitches, and purposefully doing other stuff that normal players aren't supposed to do. In order words, I'm a bug checker.

  Hidetaka Suehiro

  Player, Order, Stuff

  "Beer, Masturbation, And Twin Peaks: A Conversation With Swery65". Interview with Patrick Klepek, kotaku.com. May 1, 2015.

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• People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?

  Domhnall Gleeson

  People, Annoyed, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really got consumed with the idea of how people who are deemed crazy or insane often have a firmer grasp on reality than normal people. The average person goes through life thinking it will go on forever.

  Youth Lagoon

  Crazy, Reality, Thinking

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.

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• We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

  Daryl Gates

  People, Veins, May

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• It is only by going through a volume of work that... your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through.

  Ira Glass

  Ambition, Fighting, Way

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• People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.

  William Eckhardt

  Lying, Views, People

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• Good systems tend to violate normal human tendencies.

  William Eckhardt

  Tendencies, Humans

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• Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Party, Thinking, People

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.34, Dial Press

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• The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper, it is an uncannily perceptive exploration of male psychology… Pomeroy is a brave new voice capable of taking us beyond the clichés of war and its aftermath and into the secret heart of every man. This is simply the best novel I’ve read in a long time.

  Andrew X. Pham

  War, Heart, Men

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