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Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.


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


Sam Rayburn
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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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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
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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Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.


Billy Idol
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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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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.


Chuck Jones
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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 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
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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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
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Geraldine Brooks
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
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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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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