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In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense. -- Dexter Filkins
I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances. -- Malcolm McDowell
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. -- Sam Rayburn
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. -- Sam Rayburn
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. -- William Halsey
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. -- Nelson Mandela
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. -- Rob Lowe
When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. -- Dougray Scott
I like to show ordinary people reacting to extraordinary circumstances. It's an opportunity for adventure, and I like women to have adventures. There's been far too little of it with women. -- Susan Isaacs
As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances. -- James Badge Dale
The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it's a story of normal brothers - who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances. -- Brent Weeks
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes. -- Zeljko Ivanek
I've always been a champion of kids pursuing their dreams. But sometimes in life, extraordinary circumstances may force us to temporarily put our dreams on hold. The most important thing is to never lose sight of that dream, no matter what punches life may throw in our way. -- Marlo Thomas
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith. -- Ted Dekker
All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window? -- Ingrid Newkirk
The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances. -- Paulo Coelho
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. -- Robertson Davies
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things -- Dee Hock
I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves. -- Jodi Picoult

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