“In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.” IfsWorldNeedsPersonsWholeHomeCertainPayCitiesMillionsNew YorkRight NowNormalDollarsAverageLos AngelesMore MoneyMillion DollarsIowaStarters Author:Karrine Steffans
“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesBigsKidsRememberGamesHouseFunGrowsCitiesGrowing UpChildhoodFrontsFootballBasketballNormalNeighborhoodYardsNew OrleansFootball GameBig CitiesTouch Football Author:Eli Manning
“The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.” WorldWayBookDifferentDifferencesViewsCitiesHeroNormalComicMake SenseDifferent WaysComic BookSuperheroAnother WorldPrismsGothamGotham City Author:Zack Snyder
“We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.” PeopleMayCountryGovernmentTogetherValuesCitiesCompanyAcceptingEnvironmentLandDogNormalConnectionsEnvironmentalSecureLandscapeEnterpriseTransformedMy DogMiningConcessionsSpeculators Author:Wade Davis
“Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and eat good food and meet cool people, but that's not my normal life. It's pretty pedestrian. I have coffee in the morning, I go for a run, and then I write for as long as I possibly can.” PeopleWritingLongRunningFunCitiesTalkingMorningNormalCoffeeJournalistHotelNormal LifeGood FoodPedestriansCool People Author:James Ponsoldt
“I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.” IfsFeelsTryingEnoughCitiesGrewNormalGrew UpPressureParksTargetMuseumsFree Time Author:Lisa Loeb
“When I was young, I thought it was normal to go to sleep to the sounds of sirens. People on my block were in the biggest gang in the city. They were my close friends - they showed me the ropes, who to watch out for.” PeopleYoungSoundSleepCitiesWatchesNormalBlockRopeGangGoing To SleepClose FriendsSirens Author:Emily Rios
“There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.” CitiesNormalLondonIncomeCoherenceCity Of London Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I'll have to look into [Washington] D.C. a bit more. I know it's given over to the administration and the bureaucracy connected to it. It's a super-organism of the American state. But there's also a parallel city in there where normal people live.” PeopleKnowsLooksStatesGivenBitsCitiesNormalConnectedAdministrationOrganismsBureaucracyParallels Author:Dylan Moran
“We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive me to school every day and over the weekend I would go to the mall and then occasionally on Safari. Pretty normal stuff, apart from the Safari.” PeopleSchoolStuffParentCitiesMillionsNormalMassiveWeekendSuburbsMallsSafariJohannesburg Author:St. Lucia
“Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.” WritingWholeCitiesNormalNegativeCriticalDespiteMonumentDelhi Author:Karan Mahajan