You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things.
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.