As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
The average person has one Fallopian tube.
I think the average person thinks I’m a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
Who doesn’t change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we’d like to think, from 20 to 30.
Only guys who fight for a living know what it’s like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time. The average person has no understanding of what that is and what that could be.
The average person doesn’t understand what a stem cell is. There’s a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can’t really get into this dialogue because they don’t understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.
When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they’d have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you’re sending an average person who’s healthy for a short period of time, I think that’s quite doable.
I think I’m a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through – the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
An actor hears ‘no’ more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That’s a lot of no’s.
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.
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