#usual

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#dying #find #left #many #out

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#betrayal #build #deaths #edged #fight

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#attention #book #dense #film #foreign

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it. ↗

— Chris Martin

#basically #every #i #lose #moments

Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#across #around #come #down #i

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful. ↗

— Valentina Matviyenko

#believe #decisions #harmful #i #i am

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. ↗

— Joseph McKenna

#insistent #obvious #payment #punitive #sanction

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#case #claim #end #events #future

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#audience #character #closer #first #i

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#albums #basically #being #covered #first