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If you are actually ordinary, the only way to give royal status meaning is to live an extraordinary life. It can't be jeans and burgers and granny doing the babysitting.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.

If you really see how many live shows are going on... you can start to do things that are out of the ordinary.

In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.

For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.

If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.

You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

I use ordinary soap bubbles, the dime-store stuff, two wands and a plastic straw.

I went to an ordinary primary school, and then I started performing in a show called 'Billy Elliot' on the West End, and that was sort of my drama school.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

In our heads, only people with celebrity status, glamour and bling pop out as people who have stories. I find the ordinary life exciting - there is something dark and mysterious about it.

When I was doing 'Ordinary People' and 'Taps,' I never wondered if it would have a lasting impression. I was just wanting to make the best film we could and do my part in that and be true to what my responsibilities were.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference.

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

There are lots of things about millionaires that make them pretty ordinary, but what's not ordinary is their ability to accumulate wealth, how hard they work, and what they do for a living.

I believe deeply that jazz is still a very vital music that has much to say, not just to eggheads, or whatever the musical equivalent of an egghead is, but to ordinary people.

I put ordinary people in jeopardy and give them the opportunity to be heroic. Then there's a great payoff for the reader at the end, when the heroic character gets what he or she deserves. Readers will come back again and again if they feel satisfied at the end.