quotes about Normalcy
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There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
-- Amber Benson -
Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.
-- Ann Northrop -
I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
-- Gary ColemanSource : "'Diff'rent Strokes' actor Gary Coleman dies at 42" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2010.
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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
-- Gayle Forman -
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…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently? What do you mean, odd?' Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.
-- Jasper Fforde -
Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.
-- Jean KilbourneSource : "Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women". Documentary, 2010.
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Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
-- Jeffrey Veen -
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
-- Katherine DunnSource : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
-- Lynn NottageSource : "Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined,' 'Fabulation' open". Interview with Robert Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2011.
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Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.
-- Melissa Marr -
Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.
-- Michael ShurtleffSource : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
-- Parker Posey -
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
-- Richard MathesonSource : Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
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I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.
-- Atticus ShafferSource : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
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The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.
-- Benton MacKaye