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• I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I couldn't write as well as they do, which of course I couldn't; they're great writers, and I'm no writer at all. But I couldn't even write badly about normal, neurotic people. I don't know that world from the inside. That's just not my orientation.

  Jim Woodring

  Mean, Writing, People

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• I'm not necessarily a happy person. I don't think that happiness is always the right response to a situation. I think we've come to a point in time where people are saying, "Oh, you know, loss and change, that's just normal."

  Melissa Holbrook Pierson

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I didn't even know what Chikara was... So I show up at the show, and I'm expecting a normal wrestling show... there's like a f#%ing dude in a dinosaur outfit walking around, and there was a stipulaton that someone would be sent back in time... Not that I disliked it or anything, I was just like, what the hell is going on.

  Dean Ambrose

  Wrestling, Would Be, Dinosaurs

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• As a libertarian I believe we should have a federal government simple and circumscribed enough to be run by an average, dull, normal American. With George W. Bush we have half the equation in place.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Believe, Simple

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• It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

  Christina Ricci

  Sarcastic, Real, Teenager

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• The United States has entered the ranks of the failed states. One of the most remarkable manifestations of a failed state is that the criminals are all inside the government operating against the people, whereas in a normal state, the criminals are on the outside of the government, operating against it. So, we now have every manifestation of being a failed state, with the government in the hands of a few Wall Street gangsters.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Wall, Government, Hands

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• Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Recovery, Loss

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• The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as much as a normal human being: the heartache of love and the heartache of books. Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

  Joel Dicker

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.

  Udo Kier

  Stars, Sky, Cooking

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• People do notice you but they behave normally if you behave normal.

  Lara Dutta

  People, Behave, Ifs

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• I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real boots on the ground approach to helping veterans in need.

  Max Martini

  Jobs, Real, People

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

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• You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

  Vera Brosgol

  Looks, May

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• Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

  Michael Glatze

  Reason, Has Beens

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• I guess I look so straight and normal nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

  Chevy Chase

  Fall, Looks, Noses

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

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• A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hate, Cutting, Kissing

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• Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, War, Taken

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• If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Hatred, Skins

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• What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.

  Deepak Chopra

  Average, May, Psycho

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• Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.

  Angela Merkel

  War, Fighting, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Real, Fall

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• If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain - and then practice it a little bit.

  Dana Perino

  Practice, Perfectly Normal, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Development aid is one of the reasons for Africa's problems. If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn't even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.

  James Shikwati

  Would Be, Development, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia. Eventually, it will just be impossible to fly - normal flights will become as expensive as flying with the Concorde.

  Hermann E. Ott

  Flying, Energy, Asia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Taken, Thinking, Sick

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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