I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.
I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
I got to talk to people like Mel [Lewis] and Milt Hilton and Benny Carter and Clark Terry and. . . Jay McShann. I just found myself in some circumstances, on some gigs or sometimes in clubs, with the ability to talk to some of these people. Just being around their energy and being around that history was invaluable. And what I normally say to young people that are getting into the music, if you can and go. . . now there's less of those folks around, sadly.
You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.
. . . the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.
I don't normally get very star struck. However, I was just at a table read for a movie. It was an animated movie where they have all the actors come in and sit around a big table and read the whole script out loud so you can see what's working, what's not working. And this is an animated movie that Paul McCartney is doing and he's producing it. So I got to meet Paul McCartney.
Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.
Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.
I normally ignore the History Channel.
It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
No one would have picked me out in high school and said, 'This guy is going to be in show business. ' I don't have any of the talents you would normally associate with show business.
It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.
What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.