Normalcy Quotes - Page 2

• I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

  Taylor Swift

  Ideas, Long, Able

  "Why Taylor Swift Welcomed You to New York". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 20, 2014.

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• As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

  Sonia Johnson

  Sad, Pilots, Normality

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• I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

  Katherine Dunn

  Unique, Glimpse, Horror

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage

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• I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

  Kelley Armstrong

  Should Have, Two, Waiting

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• Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

  Chuck Eddy

  Growing Up, Divorce, White

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

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• After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

  Chinua Achebe

  War, Vines, Hints

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Anchor

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• It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Nice, Character, Ethnicity

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• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  Gary Coleman

  "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Oklahoma City, Cities

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• In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Roles, Continuity

  "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.

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• The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship, is to maintain some sort of normalcy. With television, you might not be home a lot, but you have a routine.

  Julianna Margulies

  Home, Trying, Routine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I just try to keep that connection to normalcy. I never want to lose that, being normal. People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

  Wiz Khalifa

  People, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Contradiction, Claims

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.21, Penguin

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• It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging his head. "No. I don't want to. . ." I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Suicide, Pain, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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• The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

  Erving Goffman

  Acceptance, Different, Able

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• I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Hands, Return

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.314, Scholastic Inc.

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• Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.

  James Patterson

  Everyday, Patterns, Freak

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.15, Random House

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• Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

  Peter Drucker

  Appreciation, Business, Opportunity

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

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• Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Mistake, Unhappy, Actors

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I`m surrounded by people and feel alone.

  Gayle Forman

  People, Feels, Where She Went

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.21, Penguin

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• We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Winning, Awards, Ideas

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• I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

  Parker Posey

  Watches, Veins, Opera

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• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Presidential, Littles

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.211, e-artnow sro

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• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Ties, Curiosity

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• I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

  Candace Cameron

  Couple, School, Years

  "Candace Cameron Bure: 'When I Was 17'". Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. September 18, 2009.

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