I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.
I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.
In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.
One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement.
People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
In 'Breaking Bad,' we have a lead character who definitely finds himself in a situation he would never have expected to find himself in normally.
If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a genius, and when they can't understand, will certainly think of you a stupid.
A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because I wanted to be an actor. My parents are both teachers.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.
Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine. I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio.
