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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


Gerard Way
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But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
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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
In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.
Tommy Lee Jones
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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.


Billy Idol
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
Ted Dekker
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
J. M. Coetzee
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Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.


Lee Byung-hun
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My parents are the reason I wanted to make Shakespeare available to ordinary people.


Kenneth Branagh
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Walter Lord
I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.
Leonard Baskin
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It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
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If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.


Leon Redbone
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I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
Jody Williams
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When I was doing 'Ordinary People' and 'Taps,' I never wondered if it would have a lasting impression. I was just wanting to make the best film we could and do my part in that and be true to what my responsibilities were.
Timothy Hutton
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
Vince Vaughn
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
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They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.
David R. Brower
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Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
Bin Laden always wanted to get rid of Mubarek and Ben Ali and Gaddafi and so on, claiming that they were all infidels working for America, and in fact, it was millions of ordinary people who peacefully, more or less - certainly in the case of Tunisia and Egypt - got rid of them.
Robert Fisk
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