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"I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics."
"The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place."
"The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible."
"Though Autism can be frightening and terribly demanding, it also comes with its vast share of superpowers that are unknown to the typical human."
"I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me."
"I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions."
"The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films."
"Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance."
"If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success."
"It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first."
"Golf is typical capitalist luncay."
"If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel."
"I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture."
"Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again."
"It is perhaps typical of very creative minds that they hit very large nails not quite on the head."
"I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason."
