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But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
Donald Judd
Work
Art
You
People
Degree
Whatever
Think
Way
Enter
One-Way
Environment
Like
Remote
Looks
Another
Does
Very
Art Work
Ordinariness
Certain
Certain Degree
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell
Nature
Human Nature
Obscurity
Instinctively
Human
Ordinariness
Rebel
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli
Simplicity
Long
Everyday
Everyday Lives
Our
Complex
Ordinariness
Decisions
Filled
Lives
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
Varun Grover
Nature
People
Comedy
Fall
Unkindness
Sexism
Tend
Supposed
Edgy
Oppressed
Lot
Very
Same
Patriarchy
Ordinariness
Traps
Play
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
Peter York
Beer
Men
Interviews
Almost
Read
Because
Always
Forever
Commitments
Predictable
Ordinariness
Now
Actor
Actually
Stressing
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
John Shelton Reed
Own
Believe
Elvis
Elvis Presley
Say
Says
About
Still
His
Southerner
Ordinariness
Poor
Useful
Including
Things