A Quote by Viola Davis

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

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Viola Davis
American - Actress
Born: August 11, 1965

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.

Robert Dessaix

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Chris Van Allsburg

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Jim Valvano

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Boris Pasternak

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Veronique Vienne

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

Twiggy

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

Tracy Kidder

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Michael Gerber

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

Studs Terkel

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.