Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
I try and be as normal as I can, but it's all pretty mental to be honest.
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
Life: another day, another dolor.
All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.
Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.
Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.
Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
I go through the same trials and tribulations as anyone else.
There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.
The challenge is always to find the ultimate in the ordinary horseshit.
Despite being the greatest, Messi is an ordinary guy. He speaks like a normal guy, he acts like a normal guy. As a normal person, he has family, day-to-day problems in his life, friends and family, the usual.
What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.
I write about everyday people, everyday lives.
Its not easy being a man you know. I had to get dressed today… and there are other pressures.
As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior.
My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.
