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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
Harrison Ford
Experience
Control
Airplane
Know
Anonymous
Talking
Lot
Common
Being
Experiences
Ordinary
Who
Behind the ambitious, creative talent that is Hollywood lies a darker side of the entertainment industry little appreciated by the ordinary moviegoer. It's an opaque world of film financing, revenue accretion, and minimal profit share.
Harry Shearer
Entertainment
Creative
World
Profit
Side
Minimal
Financing
Lies
Darker
Entertainment Industry
Opaque
Share
Talent
Industry
Revenue
Ambitious
Accretion
Behind
Ordinary
Little
Hollywood
Film
Appreciated
Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans.
Helen Thomas
Time
Thoughts
Rights
Will
Congress
Members
Case
Give
Ready
Get
American
Legislate
Maybe
Ordinary
Next
Next Time
Jefferson
Away
Second
I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.
Helen Vendler
You
Words
Sometimes
Long
Think
Though
Vocabulary
Particular
Concepts
Fairly
Read
Around
Audience
Tradition
Discourse
Lot
Familiar
Forget
May
Literary
Ordinary
Which
Cluster
Hard
Using
Even
Things
Flow
We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.
Henry Mintzberg
Best
People
Healthy
Too
Circumstances
Simply
Healthy People
Effective
Up
Managers
Maybe
Screwed
Ordinary
Screwed-Up
Flawed
Flaws
Who
Whose
Basically
Fatal
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
Henry Williamson
People
Healthy
Live
Imagination
Because
Healthy People
Normal
Fit
Authors
Ordinary
Apart
Ordinary People
Who
Start
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
Holly Hunter
People
Extraordinary
Examination
Look
Very
Closer
Often
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Even
When I began to write my books about Coalwood, I was surprised to discover, upon reflection, that it wasn't an ordinary place at all.
Homer Hickam
Reflection
Books
About
Write
Surprised
Discover
Began
Ordinary
Place
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
Howard Crosby
Truth
Teacher
Mind
Preparation
Illustration
Neglect
Part
Almost
Wisely
His
Afford
Essential
Ordinary
Chosen
Fasten
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Ian Anderson
Life
Young
Older
Living
Possibility
Kind
Outcomes
Examine
Rather
Idea
Like
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Growing
Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
Iman Shumpert
Day
Me
All Day
Rap
Stay
Studio
Time-Consuming
Artist
Ordinary
Compared
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
Ina Garten
Love
Food
Something
Take
Make
Ordinary
Really
Special
I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious.
Issa Rae
Life
Funny
My Life
Hilarious
Finding
Pretty
Because
Stick
Friends
Ordinary
Lives
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin
Word
Language
Claim
Ordinary
Certainly
Such A Thing
Thing
Last
My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
Great
Me
Happy
Book
World
Great Deal
Reading
Imagination
Corner
Drawing
Would
Drew
Had
Feeding
Like
Fell
Devour
Deal
Got
Go
Off
Hands
Hugo
Any
Hold
Ordinary
Really
Interests
Les
Les Miserables
Lived
Thick
Away
Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.
Jacob Zuma
Future
Constitution
Expediency
Dangerous
Political
Problems
Will
Difficult
Citizens
Solve
Abide
Give
Make
Judgments
Govern
Impression
Precedence
Current
Regard
Ordinary
Which
Disregard
Set
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Jada Pinkett Smith
People
Opportunity
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Participate
How
Wanted
Decided
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Really
Show
Reasons
Why
Things
I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.
Jake Epstein
Love
Fall
Else
Teenager
Everyone
Everyone Else
Like
Am
Ordinary
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.
James Buchan
Year
Despot
Extreme
Ghastly
East
More
Since
Been
Existence
Conditions
Middle
Middle East
Ordinary
Each
Each Year
Profound
Last
Violence
Two
Chances
As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.
James Gleick
Time
Man
Word
Analog
Say
Evolutionary
Meme
Memes
Gene
Invented
He
Cliche
Hear
Maybe
Ordinary
Which
Richard
Use
Who
Even
Started
Biologist
Speech
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
James Laughlin
Me
Reading
Think
Pedestrian
Say
Seem
Rather
Poetry
Poets
Individual
Like
Becomes
Friend
Just
Where
Anything
Ordinary
Mean
Who
Thing
I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'
James Tate
Think
Like
Happens
Ordinary
Then
Next
Start
The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.
James Taylor
Beatles
Enough
Else
Side
See
Like
Also
Were
Anyone
Anyone Else
Ordinary
Lucky
Phenomenon
Being in a band is not about reality - it's a bit of a fantasy. I can't go on stage as my ordinary self and just play - I've got to become my 'superhuman self.'
Jamie Hince
Reality
Become
Band
Stage
Bit
About
Superhuman
Self
Got
Go
Just
Being
Ordinary
Fantasy
Play
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
Jane Pauley
Life
Better
Take For Granted
Personal Life
Would
Take
Knew
Because
Surprisingly
Than
Personal
Just
Anybody
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
Granted
I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.
Jasmila Zbanic
Life
Daily
Lie
Drama
Destroyed
Only
Buildings
Blood
Human
Want
Human Beings
Ordinary
Show
Beings
Daily Life
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