“I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.” PeoplePersonsDifferentStoriesRealityAbilityLaughingNormalMaking People Laugh Author:Paddy Considine
“There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.” PeopleThinkingStoriesCoursesBrainWonderMoralSunDangerWallGoes OnCivilizationNormalSickDressesWesternUntrueWestern CivilizationAccusingOff The WallAccusing Me Author:Marilyn Manson
“Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference today to announce that Al Qaeda is planning attacks somewhere inside the United States at sometime in the future. So go about your normal lives, but with a vague sense of foreboding.” StatesStoriesTodayUnitedUnited StatesDirectorsNormalNewsPressesThreatPlanningAlsVagueConferencesFbiAttorneyAl QaedaNormal LifePress ConferencesForeboding Author:Craig Kilborn
“I was very curious, that's why I think my reality TV seems normal. I watch a lot of reality TV because I am so interested in people and observing people. From a very young age I can remember watching a woman with a guy and she's rolling her eyes and he's pleading with her and I would think, she doesn't want to be with him, he's in love with her, she likes this other guy and I would make up these stories in my head about these people. That helps me sort of profile people and that is a key to being able to read people.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanHelpingStoriesRealitySeemsEyeAgeAbleRememberYoungGuyWatchesTvsKeysNormalLikesCuriousHelp MeRollingHer EyesYoung AgeObservingOther GuysProfileReality TvPleading Author:Daniel Negreanu
“I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.” WayLooksMeanDifferentRealSometimesStoriesNormalReal LifeDifferent WaysContrastLighting Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.” StoriesProblemNormalMental HealthStigma Author:Matthew Quick
“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWritingHumansChildrenLongTwoStoriesAsksSpeakCausesHuman BeingsPartyGeniusCircumstancesNormalAnxietyDistanceSentencesAsk MeInterviewsNativeSubmitTelephonesPatheticDistinguishedGood StoryLong DistanceImpliedSocial AnxietyInsert Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.” KnowsWritingKindStoriesWonderfulFitNormalWonderful Things Author:Walter Mosley
“I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.” IfsChildrenMomentsStoriesCryNormalPaperMy FriendsRageHormonesSobbingSad Story Author:Sara Cox
“In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop eating when they're not hungry and stop breeding when there is no sense in breeding. By contrast, human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order. For a long time, our unnatural beahvior didn't threaten the natural world, but now it does.” ThinkingWorldWayHumansLongDoeStoriesOrderNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalNormalEatingLong TimeHarmonyHungryControlledContrastNatural WorldUnnaturalBreedingNatural Order Author:Sam Keen
“We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.” EndsStoriesLiteratureHugeDevelopmentNormalMajorsNewsElectionSeriesAvailableFloridaViewersWatchersSamplingNews Stories Author:Brit Hume
“It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.” StoriesRolesNormalUnusual Author:Eva Green
“I always liked stories that carry on and have a different format from the normal music video.” DifferentStoriesNormalVideoFormat Author:Volker Bertelmann
“I think there is having a behavior that is disrespectful to women that goes unchecked, where your manhood is defined by sexual conquests, where you trade stories with your friends and no one checks anyone. At 19, that was normal.” ThinkingStoriesBehaviorNormalTradeChecksDefinedManhoodConquestDisrespectful Author:Nate Parker
“For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real people are people in positions of great prominence or power or adverse situations, and sometimes it's just normal folks who help illuminate a situation, a place, a culture. And for me, that's always been the best way of telling a story.” PeopleWayRealSometimesHelpingStoriesCultureSituationPositionNormalFolksBest WayStorytellingJournalismAdverseProminence Author:Jason Rezaian
“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.” PeopleThinkingWantKindPersonsSelfStoriesInterestingPayNormalRegardMonsters Author:Anthony Bourdain
“It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.” KnowsWorldDoeBookStoriesFeelingsNormalFinding YourselfToesGood BookViewpointsDip Author:Max Lucado
“Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.” PeopleThinkingHumansStillsCharacterStoriesProblemIndividualSpaceHalfKnownFourFeetHugeNormalSixStandingFascinatingStorytellerFrustratingJohnsonFormidableIrritatingSpace Between Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.” ThinkingI CanStoriesMy OwnPoorRoomsGrewNormalGrew UpVansAlaskaSuburbs Author:Lisa Loeb
“At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.” DifferentStoriesSchoolFeltSportsPartyBoysEventsFitActivityNormalLonelyNormal LifeAfter SchoolClassmates Author:Joyce Meyer
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.” KindStoriesTogetherTasteSceneNormalMeaninglessThreadGood StoryWasted TimeMeaning LifeForgettable Author:Donald Miller
“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.” StoriesJourneyFoodNormalConscienceFolksLegacyAbandonPlatesMarvelousRecklessFootprintSustenanceReckless Abandon Author:Joel Salatin