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Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.
We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.