Jeremy Kyle Quotes

I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.

We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.

The truth is that History, with its imposing capital H, is simply the amalgamation of many quotidian lives lived in very ordinary ways. History is always personal. If you read Holocaust survivor or American slavery survivor narratives, you realize all too well that these great Historical moments were personal to someone at some time.

Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.

The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

I like stories where normal people are in abnormal situations, and that's what appeals to me about history.

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.

It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life.

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

I collect memories. I look for opportunities to try new things, go to new places, and meet new people all the time.

Everyone goes through things; everyone has a story. That's why strangers are so interesting. I don't find a single human being boring, man.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

Every person has his or her own journey.

One of the great joys of my job is having the privilege of meeting people from all across the country and hearing their stories.

Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm writing about ordinary people.

You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual. I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge.

I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

I'm inspired by day to day life, things that people go through, things that make people tick. Everybody has a story, so you try to put stories into songs and try to make it as entertaining as possible.