I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
It's not easy for the average family to ensure that their child receives a quality education. And the federal government is not making it any easier.
I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.
I'm not asking for the support of the powerful, the strong and the mighty—but of the average Canadian, the group to which I belong.
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
My family is average. I didn't have a crazy life as a kid.
I really want to do what 'Veep' did. 'Veep,' in a very comical way, gave us a look inside the political machine, but I want to do it for the average American family.
It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
