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• I had a totally normal relationship with my body.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Body

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• I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

  Dakota Johnson

  Simple, Trying, Social Network

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• I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.

  Paddy Considine

  Reality, People, Laughing

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• I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

  Gina Bellman

  Quirky, Different, Scripts

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• I see everybody as pretty normal, ya' know? Except for the people that are normal; I think they're stranger than the people that are strange.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, People, Strange

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• Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.

  Anna Netrebko

  Beautiful, Home, Thinking

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• There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.

  Nabil Elaraby

  Country, Military, Russia

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• The propensity to play is situated in very ancient regions of the brain. Rats that have had their neocortex removed still engage in normal play.

  Jaak Panksepp

  Play, Brain, Rats

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• Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Advantage

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.92, New Victoria Publishers

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• Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Matchboxes, Organizer

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• My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Elizabeth Bowen, Allan Hepburn (2010). “Listening in: Broadcasts, Speeches, and Interviews by Elizabeth Bowen”, p.3, Edinburgh University Press

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• Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

  William J. Clinton

  Miracle, Middle East, Quiet

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• Things that live by night live outside the realm of 'normal' time and so suggest living outside the realm of good and evil, since we have moralistic feelings about time. Chauvinistic about our human need to wake by day and sleep by night, we come to associate night dwellers with people up to no good at a time when they have the jump on the rest of us and are defying nature, defying their circadian rhythms.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sleep, Night, People

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.40, Vintage

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• Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.80, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, Behavior, Sexuality

  Redbook magazine, 1975.

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• I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

  Dodie Smith

  People, Might, Eccentric

  Dodie Smith (1963). “The New Moon with the Old”

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  Anita Loos

  Stars, World, Film

  Anita Loos (1951). “A Mouse is Born”

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• Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

  Freya Stark

  Change, Wise, Men

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Thinking, Civilization

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• The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

  Karen Horney

  Culture, Courses, Conception

  Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge

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• There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

  Karen Horney

  People, Psychology

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Cooking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Energetic, Bland

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

  Jane Fonda

  Real, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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