#ordinary

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#contract #conversation #i #ongoing #ordinary

So now, thirty years, forty years later, I mean, I could find a whole orchestra of a thousand to put these things together in New York City alone. In those days, if I could scrape up twenty musicians to do this it was something extraordinary. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#city #could #days #extraordinary #find

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#career #challenge #city #different #different parts

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alternative #between #capitalism #difficult #exploitation

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#i #ordinary #pretend

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#diminish #ease #fool #i #i can

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary. ↗

— Will Carling

#conditioning #different #extraordinary #fitter #guys

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#back #come #done #ever #extraordinary

But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#family #girl #just-in-case #keep-an-open-mind #open-mind