All Quotes

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

Normally I sleep for 9, 10 hours a night.
‐‐ Andy Murray

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.
‐‐ Heikki Kovalainen

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.
‐‐ David Dewhurst

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.
‐‐ Phyllis Logan

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
‐‐ Piers Anthony

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
‐‐ Gavyn Davies

Normally, I would run with a group of guys in my camps. A couple of days before the fight, I would run by myself. That was my time to choreograph the fight in my head, so I needed to be myself.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
‐‐ Tate Donovan

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.
‐‐ Jerry Kramer

Normally, if you have a huge category that leads a bear market all the way down to the bottom - like tech after 2000, or energy in the '80-'82 bear market - you get one quick pop, and then years of lag as we fight the old war.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor

Normally, in a film with lots of twists and turns, half of them don't make sense; they're just there for their own sakes.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
‐‐ Sacha Baron Cohen

Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
‐‐ Vijay Kumar

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.
‐‐ Becki Newton

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
‐‐ Madison Smartt Bell

Normally movies have the same people they use over and over for everything. It's called typecasting. They don't like to take chances. They'll go with the guy they had before.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
‐‐ Graeme Murphy

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.
‐‐ Tony Benn

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.
‐‐ Kenneth Fisher

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
‐‐ Lara St. John

Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.
‐‐ Jerry Lee Lewis

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.
‐‐ Eriq La Salle

Normally, what I do for fun is just nothing. I try to just relax. Normally, it involves just relaxing and reading and maybe going out and meeting up with a friend. I live a very simple existence. I would much rather just sit around and listen to a couple of records and read the paper.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.
‐‐ Colm Meaney

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.
‐‐ Luke Pasqualino

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.
‐‐ Jerry Harrison

Normally, when I write a tour show, it's got a title that means something - a beginning, a middle and an end - and some kind of storyline and ideas going through it over two hours.
‐‐ Stewart Lee

Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.
‐‐ Hideo Kojima

Normally, when politicians talk about 'cutting the budget,' they really mean reducing the amount of increase. Actual spending goes up while the politicians claim to have 'cut the budget.'
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
‐‐ Brene Brown

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!
‐‐ Robert Cray

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
‐‐ Romola Garai

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
‐‐ Jane Goldman