Familiar Quotes - Page 13

• When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, People, Musical

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.

  Diahann Carroll

  Country, Cancer, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Not a lot of gay guys end up coming to alt-comedy-ish shows. They like all these '80s shimmer shows, or they like going to drag shows. It is always weird and interesting when I meet somebody at a gay bar who is familiar with my stuff.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Support, Earth

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.

  Bun B

  Son, Ideas, Perspective

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• Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.

  Alan Cumming

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Cumming around again". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 18, 2016.

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• If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

  Adam Reed

  Stars, War, People

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Character, Style, World

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• If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• First of all, it's a blast. Just fun; it's a good environment to play. And Jayne and I have a great time together because we're somewhat familiar with each other; that's a fun and comfortable place to start at when building our relationship. Everyone's incredible and they're good at what they do.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  Fun, Play, Together

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beach, Home, Night

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Musician, Sound, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

  Beck

  Trying, Would Be, Easy

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

  Alan Palomo

  Ideas, Mind, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.

  Alan Palomo

  Relation, Rate, Functionality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

  Britta Phillips

  Thinking, Interesting, Style

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Book, Savages, Actors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Important, Records, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Self, Shapes, Dull

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.

  Seth Rogen

  Kids, Evil, Community

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Summer, Use, Green

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Awkward, Cameras

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