Quotes About Normalcy

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.

I was just a regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket, and watching movies.

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

One should be abnormal to make things normal

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event, to be different is not necessarily to be wrong, or to be sick.

Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.

This starts with realizing that whatever occurs is neither the beginning nor the end. It is just the same kind of normal human experience that's been happening to everyday people from the beginning of time.

You're…normal." "That's the first time anyone's called me that in my life

Indeed, throughout his life, Elvis had a knack of appearing normal, of being able to relate 104 THE INNER ELVIS to the common person. At the same time, his tendency to play the role of being normal when in fact he was in dire need of assistance would, later in life, dictate his fate. Elvis acted to fend off intervention by family, friends, and medical and mental health professionals who attempted repeatedly to help him survive his demons.

What I wanted was the tiniest thing in the world: to be like everyone else.

It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At

There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's like being Swedish. A little different but in no way important.

I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment.

activists are so determined to make the unorthodox normal and vice versa that they manufactured a new term, "cisgender," for a person without gender hang-ups—that is, for a person "whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

The prospect of going home again scared them. They couldn't imagine how they could ever settle to it. How they could just walk around the streets and pretend to be normal, look women in the eye again after what they had done and seen, ride on trams, sit at a table with a white cloth, and control their hands and just slowly eat. It was the little things that scared them. The big things you could hide in. It was little ones that gave a man away.

Because that's really something I can't stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy.

I don't see midgets as abnormal people.

A lot of us just want to lead normal, regular lives. I want to go in for a role and if I can play that part, my trans identity shouldn't affect me.

I just think I'm the average all-American girl.