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Sam Rayburn Quote: 'Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances ...'

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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.


Jean Paul
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.


Malcolm McDowell
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
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
Walter Lord
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Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.


Dolph Lundgren
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.


Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.
John Legend
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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


Gerard Way
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I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
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What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
Jules Verne
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Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.
Eve Arnold
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For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
Jody Williams
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A biopic would have required hiring an actor, and I always wanted to just let Bobby be Bobby. My thought was it would make it a more universal story to focus on ordinary people rather than this extraordinary man.
Emilio Estevez
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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.
Philip Levine
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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Danny Boyle
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.


Trent Reznor
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.
Robbie Coltraine
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I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.


Stephan Jenkins
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