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• I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

  Sarah Vowell

  Funny, Nice, Book

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

  Michelle Wie

  Growing Up, Golf, Grows

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• I'm going back to the old Shaq. I was normal last year - I was an earthling last summer. I had to go back to my alien roots.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Summer, Years

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• The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

  Catherine O'Hara

  Nice, People, Monsters

  Source: collider.com

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• Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Night, Preparation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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.

  Meryl Streep

  Clothes, Fancy, Enjoy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

  Denzel Washington

  Interesting, Tourists, Visitors

  "Denzel Washington Talks Fleshing Out His Character, Reuniting with Antoine Fuqua, Filming in Boston, and More on the Set of THE EQUALIZER". Interview, collider.com. June 17, 2014.

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• My mom was always like, "If you love it, do it. If she's actually having fun, and I know that my kid is having fun, she's gonna do whatever she wants. Whether that's gymnastics, learning the car, acting or just being a normal kid, she's gonna do what makes her happy." That's how I've always lived my life.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Fun, Kids

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I think because I have quite a normal family and I'm bored with how normal my family is. I want to mess stuff up a bit. I chose the messed up characters because I find that that's acting. I want to explore emotions that you otherwise wouldn't be able to explore.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Character, Bored, Acting

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

  John Baldessari

  Why Not, Definitions, Painting

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• 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?"

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Years, Guy

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• It's not normal for me to feel jealous. I'm competitive with myself more than anything. And anyway, all of my friends in the business are bigger than me! Most of them are musicians, and I think music takes them to a whole new level. For me, I'm going to try out music, but it will be more fun than anything else. I'm really trying my hardest to become a well-respected actress. All I really want to do is movie after movie after movie. I love acting, and I want to create that so I can be around for a long time.

  Selena Gomez

  Fun, Jealous, Thinking

  Interview with Carissa Rosenberg, www.seventeen.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

  Steve Wozniak

  Math, Genius, World

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

  Steve Wozniak

  Geek, Language, Characteristics

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's your homeland or when you're traveling. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Appreciate, Support, Trying

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.

  Kevin Spacey

  Normal Life, Britain, I Can

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• I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total fricking rock star from Mars...

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Tired, Rocks

  "Charlie Sheen interview: 'You can't process me with a normal brain'". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Art is a normal and necessary behavior of human beings and like other common and universal occupations such as talking, working, exercising, playing, socializing, learning, loving, and caring, should be recognized, encouraged and developed in everyone. Via art, experience is heightened, elevated, made more memorable and significant

  Ellen Dissanayake

  Art, Memorable, Exercise

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• One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Errors, Sea

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Government, Average, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

  Clemence Poesy

  Fame, Position, Convenient

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• I still live as normal a life as anybody else. I have two homes to run. I have my staff to take care of. I work, pay bills and attend society meetings like everybody else.

  Deepika Padukone

  Running, Home, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.

  Joey King

  Crazy, Normal Life, Ifs

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