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• I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.

  Daniel Coyle

  Heart, Energy, Tasks

  Daniel Coyle, Tyler Hamilton (2012). “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs”, p.19, Random House

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• If some Western politician claims he is in a position to use the normal Western methods to feed and clothe 1.2 billion Chinese, we would be happily prepared to elect him president of China.

  Li Peng

  Chinese, President, Would Be

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• I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

  Marion Bartoli

  Earth, Painting, Produce

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• Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

  Marion Bartoli

  Thinking, People, Care

  "Wimbledon 2010: People's champion Marion Bartoli back to hold court". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

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• From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility. From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful. From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise. And sometimes, from their envy of each other's special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

  Adele Faber

  Clever, Sibling, Struggle

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• The normal press cycle is to put a company on a pedestal and then knock it down. It's much more interesting that way.

  Biz Stone

  Interesting, Pedestal, Way

  "Twitter Cofounder: 'We're Long Overdue To Be Knocked Down By The Press'" by Nicholas Carlson, www.sfgate.com. April 15, 2011.

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• As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.

  James P. Comer

  Children, Moral Development, Self

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• Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.

  Chris Mars

  Character, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.

  Berenice Bejo

  Dream, People, Fiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.

  Young Jean Lee

  Crazy, People, Outsiders

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Script is not finished until it's finished. There's many times, partway through a film, when an idea comes, and I say, "How beautiful this is. This thing was not complete and look what's happened, look what's come along." And it just came along at what might be called a strange time rather than a normal time.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Ideas, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

  Stella Hudgens

  Risk, Trying, Admire

  "Meet Vanessa Hudgens' Stylish Little Sister (and Ballet Dancer!) Stella". Interview With Leah Melby Clinton, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2015.

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• By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Skills, Acting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Emotional, Autism

  "Temple Grandin On The Secret To Success For Kids With Autism". Interview with Macrina Cooper-White, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2014.

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• I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mother, Sibling, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• The internet has to be protected from intrusive monitoring or else the medium upon which we all rely for the basis of our economy and our normal life, we'll lose that, and it's going to have broad effects as a consequence that we cannot predict.

  Edward Snowden

  Internet, Economy, Monitoring

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No, I like normal life but I will go crazy if I'm not working. I'll say to my mom, "I'm going crazy! I'm going stir crazy!" I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals. Sometimes, I just want to work whether its on location here in Michigan or back in LA. I just want to work, work, work. It's what I want to do with the rest of my life so, yes, I do go a little bit crazy when I'm not working.

  Joey King

  Mom, Crazy, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• When you do a normal film, you play the character for three months and you say goodbye to him. And then, when you watch the movie, you say, "I wish I could have done that differently. I wish I could have added this to it."

  Taylor Lautner

  Goodbye, Character, Play

  "Taylor Lautner Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN - PART 2; Watch the 20 Minute Press Conference or Read the Transcript". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.

  Robert Pattinson

  Being There, Possibility, Humans

  Source: collider.com

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• In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.

  Tom Weston-Jones

  Letting Go, Coffee, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Spring, Emotional

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• Normal children of both sexes and all cultures will follow a more or less standard and universal developmental pattern and timetable, and reach approximately the same level of development at maturity. While a particular culture's need and expectations and teaching will shape the course of development and affect adult capabilities to some degree, normal individuals, whatever their native culture, if transplanted and taught, could learn to meet the normal demands of their adapted cultures.

  Stella Chess

  Sex, Children, Teaching

  Stella Chess, Jane Whitbread (1978). “Daughters: from infancy to independence”

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  Omar Sharif

  Son, Grandchildren, Ideas

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• I just desperately wanted to be happy again in a way that wasn't forced. I wanted to feel like I accomplished something. I did this. I finished this record. I'm doing all the promo. I'm doing everything that I said I was going to do. I really wanted to be happy and normalized and I was tired of people saying I was volatile. I'm not. I'm a pretty normal person. I have problems like anyone else but I've worked so hard to be OK and I don't think that I gave myself enough credit for that.

  Michael Angelakos

  Tired, Thinking, People

  "Passion Pit's Path Through the Darkness". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. March 18, 2015.

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