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I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.
Joy Mangano
People
Joy
Think
Extraordinary
About
Because
Lot
Times
So Many People
Movie
Ordinary
Many
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
Joyce Carol Oates
Better
Later
Secretary
Corrected
Would
Had
He
Written
Prose
Roaming
Sort
Been
Curious
James
Ordinary
Works
Henry
Resisted
Speech
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.
Julianne Moore
Thoughts
You
People
Feelings
Never
Know
Until
Up
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Might
Really
Even
Filled
Suddenly
Jin used to be an ordinary guy in the team, but he's the mood maker now. He's the most wicked and funniest of all. No one in BTS is normal, though, come to think of it.
Jungkook
Wicked
Think
Mood
Though
Guy
No-One
He
Come
Most
Maker
Normal
Ordinary
Ordinary Guy
Used
Team
Now
Funniest
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
Jurgen Habermas
Change
Political
Crime
Country
Become
Clear
Between
Terror
Becomes
Terrorists
Representatives
Difference
Ordinary
Which
Former
Regimes
I was once asked by Jeremy Paxman what is it about celebrity and said that people these days seem to think a celebrity is someone who has escaped the constraints of ordinary people: that they don't have the same kind of problems, almost as if they're classical gods.
Justin Cartwright
People
Problems
Think
Once
Kind
Classical
About
Seem
Someone
Constraints
Almost
Days
Said
Celebrity
Escaped
Gods
Same
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Asked
Who
Jeremy
People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
Karan Mahajan
Love
People
Evil
Bad Things
Bad
Stay
About
Fact
Talking
Banality
Want
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Away
Actually
Things
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Karen Thompson Walker
Life
Value
Pleasure
Reminded
Being
Ordinary
Ordinary Life
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
Karen Thompson Walker
Food
World
Take For Granted
Value
Own
Every
Changed
Enough
Pleasure
Drawn
Ring
My Own
Small
Tend
Take
Hot
True
Wrote
Always
Been
Surprising
Friends
Where
Stories
Ordinary
Them
Meaning
Much
Creating
Granted
Radically
Showers
Found
Routines
Thing
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
Kate Winslet
Woman
Down
Carpet
More
Red
Feel
Red Carpet
Like
Covered
Walking
Than
Role
Ordinary
Sweat
Playing
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
Katha Pollitt
Life
Time
Good
Rights
Women
Abortion
Made
Too
Good Life
Say
Possible
Silences
Had
Support
Hear
Huge
Ordinary
Social
Who
Many
Reservoir
My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.
Kenneth Branagh
People
Parents
Shakespeare
Make
Wanted
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Available
Reason
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark
Great
Achievement
People
Church
Lay
Catholic
Catholic Church
Impulses
Ordinary
Ignorant
Ignorant People
Deepest
Great Achievement
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.
Kenny G
Music
Good
Business
Song
Somebody
Think
Music Business
Say
Dreamer
Guy
Good Song
Maybe
Just
Just As Much
Ordinary
Ordinary Guy
Much
Who
Right
Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire you.
Kenny Scharf
Life
Art
Day
You
Change
Inspire
Everyday Life
Everyday
Something
Take
Part
Walking
Just
Want
Ordinary
Just Walking
Confronted
Might
Your
Street
Bring
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
Kevin Henkes
Nature
Extraordinary
Hopefully
Examining
Like
Within
Reveals
Doing
Ordinary
When we made 'Life in a Day,' we asked people around the globe to record their lives on a single ordinary day. When we were cutting that film, we talked about what it might be like if we chose a day that already had significance to people. The result is 'Christmas in a Day.'
Kevin Macdonald
Life
Christmas
Day
People
Result
Made
Single
Significance
Record
About
Had
Like
Talked
Globe
Around
Were
Ordinary
Might
Asked
Cutting
Chose
Film
Lives
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.
Khaled Hosseini
Happiness
Life
Love
Future
Good
Me
You
People
Affection
Expectation
Sense
Books
Security
About
Something
Like
Than
Children
Want
Bigger
Predictability
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Them
Really
Reasonable
Who
Street
Belong
One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.
Kiefer Sutherland
Thought
Big
Action
Extraordinary
Ways
Draws
Charge
About
Guy
He
Takes
Make
Due
His
Lot
Jack
Situations
Ordinary
Placed
Ordinary Situations
Show
Who
Profession
Appealing
Right
Here
When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.
Kip Thorne
Space
Too
Waves
Earth
Detect
Small
Reach
Squeeze
Human
Tiny
Senses
Ordinary
Far
Gravitational
Stretch
I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
Lara Giddings
Time
Myself
Health
Own
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Minister
Finding
My Own
Weight
Like
Look
Well
Exercise
Around
Issues
Role
After
Ordinary
Things
I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
Lara Giddings
Health
Try
Problems
Own
Other
Else
Out
Responsible
My Own
Also
Exercise
Am
Walking
Improve
Expecting
Diet
Just
Anyone
Anyone Else
Ordinary
Bike
Much
Edward Eager wrote a series of children's books that are in danger of being forgotten. But they're divine: stories about ordinary kids who stumble on magical things - a coin, a lake, a book, a thyme garden, a well. The magic changes them, they try to change the magic, the magic moves on.
Laura Lippman
Change
Garden
Book
Try
Stumble
Changes
Books
Danger
Kids
Magic
About
Magical
Divine
Wrote
Well
Edward
Forgotten
Being
Children
Moves
Stories
Lake
Ordinary
Them
Who
Series
Eager
Things
Coin
I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
Laurence Yep
Good
You
Writing
Sometimes
Think
Everything
Out
Write
Good Writing
Ideas
Get
Children
Experiences
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Special
Things
Brings
Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President's address on the San Bernardino shooting, that 'this is the war of our time.' As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime.
Lawrence M. Krauss
War
Time
Terrorism
Crime
President
Our
Address
Our Time
Response
Muslims
Borders
John
John McCain
More
React
Said
Trump
Than
Donald
Shooting
Donald Trump
Intensity
Closing
McCain
San
Ordinary
Far
Shows
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
Lee Siegel
Life
Time
Problems
Inevitable
Address
Way
Those
Television
Would
Part
Became
Because
Itself
Ordinary
Mundane
Flow
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