“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.” LittlesDifferentNightFallBitsWeekParticularNormalLittle BitMusicianPerformancesPatternsSchedulesRehearsalDay And NightConductorDifferent Day Author:Leonard Slatkin
“The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.” PeopleIfsTwoWeekStreetsNormalSixSeriesSurprisingTwo Weeks Author:Paul McGann
“My worst vice is gluttony. I try to keep myself under control because I'm an athlete, but once a week I like to pig out and act like a normal person.” TryingPersonsWeekWorstNormalAthleteVicesPigsGluttony Author:Gianluigi Buffon
“We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.” YearsStillsLastsSpeakVoiceWisePlayerWeekFootballNormalAcceptedManagersSoccerAwardsChairmanSpeak EnglishMimickingBest EverZolaCockneys Author:Ken Bates
“There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.” KnowsSaidCountryHelpingLastsCertainThreeNamesSidesWeekMilitaryArmsNormalIncludingRussiaFighterOppositionIranResolutionProvidingSyriaAssistanceAdoptedAmmunition Author:Nabil Elaraby
“I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'” PeopleHas BeensSaidSelfFeltChurchDecisionDoubtSawsWeekSpecialNormalMy FriendsDefeatDisappointmentStoresReactionsBoardsSeatsPastorQualifiedSomething BetterSelectedSelf-doubtAdvisory Author:Jack Canfield
“I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. You know, sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So yeah, I've never had like a normal job.” RealSometimesJobsYoungRoomsWeekNormalBucksReal Jobs Author:Seth Rogen
“In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.” IfsGivingChildrenWeekReturnBirthNormalEastGermanyHousewifeGiving BirthWorking LifeEast Germany Author:Christian Schwochow
“I was looking the other day at the calendar and I was like oh my gosh we only have two weeks left and I've been on tour since June I don't know how I'm going to switch back into normal life. It's been so much fun.” KnowsTwoLeftFunKnow HowWeekNormalJuneTwo WeeksCalendarsNormal LifeOh My Gosh Author:Demi Lovato
“I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.” IfsNeedsTryingI CanHoursFiveWeekHealthyNormalSixBeatsActiveBarsBad DayProteinFourteen Author:Rhea Seehorn
“When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.” IfsWritingYearsLastsHoursWeekCoupleLuckyNormalEightSixtyWork Week Author:Sandra Cisneros
“To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.” KindPersonsTwoPowerfulWeekPersonalityLessonsNormalShameElectionWorriedI've LearnedNormTwo Weeks Author:Chris Hayes
“So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.” IfsMindEnoughLastsGoalResultsWeekHavensFootballOne DayNormalSetting GoalsGood Football Author:Jose Mourinho
“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.” PeopleIfsLongUsedClearWeekEventsNormalSpringLet MeMiracleCardsEducatedPleasantSunriseEasterChicksGreetingsPeepingOvercastGreeting CardEaster Time Book:Peace Like a River Source: Peace Like a River
“A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.” PeoplePersonsSaidBigsJobsCertainGirlStrongWaitingWalksWeekNormalOceanPagesPaidSolveLike MeMy TimeSalaryRiddleStrong Girl Book:I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems Source: I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems
“Some days felt longer than other days. Some days felt like two whole days. Unfortunately those days were never weekend days. Our Saturdays and Sundays passed in half the time of a normal workday. In other words, some weeks it felt like we worked ten straight days and had only one day off.” TwoWholeFeltHalfWeekOne DayTenNormalSundayWeekendSaturdayDays OffSaturday And Sunday Author:Joshua Ferris
“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?” ThinkingMenMeanImportantUseAgeAmericaGamesHoursFiveSawsWeekFrontsFlowerNormalNewsTwentiesAverageFolksScreensVideoThirtyReportsMasculinityTwenty Five Author:Joel Salatin