#normality

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning. ↗

— María Dueñas

#life-philosophy #normality #past-and-future #life

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#education #effects #expression #get #hope

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#different #different thing #fun #inside #normality

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp. ↗

— George Takei

#barbed #barbed wire #became #camp #guard

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car. ↗

— Samantha Barks

#car #carpet #experience #get #important

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets, college kids were planning their next ski trip and discussing the new Police album. We could have been in any city in Japan. Transplant this coffee shop scene to Yokohama or Fukuoka and nothing would seem out of place. In spite of which -- or, rather, all the more because -- here I was, sitting in this coffee shop, drinking my coffee, feeling a desperate loneliness. I alone was the outsider. I had no place here. Of course, by the same token, I couldn't really say I belonged to Tokyo and its coffee shops. But I had never felt this loneliness there. I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#coffee-shops #loneliness #normality #outsider #reclaim

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#childhood #complex #ever #had #happen

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. ↗

— Joe Ancis

#normality #people #life

There is no normality in life. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#normality

The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I'm very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality. ↗

— Rory McIlroy

#ambitious #back #both #come #concentrating