"She's a phony, but she's a real phony...Because she honestly believes all the phony junk that she believes." –– Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Being ordinary is vastly underrated. Everybody wants to be rich, famous and good looking, and really, aside from the money, fame is not all it's cracked up to be. Honest. If you're ordinary:
1. You can do outrageous things and nobody pays any attention to you.
2. Nobody will ever ask you for your autograph while your mouth is full of spaghetti.
3. People won't hate you because you're rich and beautiful and they're not.
4. You can be smart as hell and no one will say that you're "just" acting.
5. You don't have to wear glasses to pretend that you're smart. See Julia Roberts pretending to be a doctor in Flatliners.
6. Nobody will ever sift through your garbage looking for incriminating evidence.
7. You can lie, cheat, scratch your butt, and steal, and it will never be on YouTube.
8. The "help" won't write a tell-all book about you, or go on the Jerry Springer Show to get even.
9. You will never get bumped up to First Class, but you can drink all you want, insult the flight attendant, and no one will sue you.
10. You can watch reality TV without seeing any of your former friends, exes, or even yourself pretending to be even bigger asses than you already are.
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I hate it when that happens.
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I like being 'normal'.
Beats hell out of Andy Williams version hands down!
And, I too balk at number 6. You didn't know my third wife.
Plus, I have trouble buying "ordinary" as an accurate appellation for anyone whose avatar is the fabulous Diana Rigg! Too much chosen mystery there for a common persona to hide behind.
Hepburn - what a jewel.
And besides, many "ordinary" people do extraordinary things, but they do them out of conviction and love and not out of a need to burnish their public image.
Oh! Not while moving. At stoplights.
When we get to the point that there are no more ways to shame yourself publicly we will have achieved true freedom.
However, there is somewhat less than 5billon years left in our sun's lifetime, so I am not hopeful we will get there.
[R] for hope.
Holly Golightly was ordinary, but made herself far from ordinary to survive. In the end, she was just an ordinary girl with an ordinary guy and an ordinary cat out in the rain.
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Not sure I'm making sense, but you did!
(Also, I read an article recently about some of Agee's "subjects" whose families remain offended by their depiction. fame is a double edged sword, for shure.)