Familiar Quotes - Page 15

• I guess it's interesting traveling, for me, because I never in my life until doing this felt a sense of being from anywhere particularly, whereas now I do feel quite European. Even if we don't get up to England, if we're in France or somewhere like that, it feels more like going back somewhere familiar - more than even America, where we share a lot of cultural stuff.

  Will Farquarson

  America, Interesting, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

  Melissa Leo

  Stones, Way, Scripts

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden's Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before any of this happened. But I've been familiar with his work, so I felt I wanted to get it right. I wanted to honor him. I respect him and I think the way he does his job is admirable. Yeah, there was an added incentive. I wouldn't call it pressure, but incentive perhaps.

  Zachary Quinto

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I wasn't terribly familiar. I had read some of the headlines but didn't quite understand difference between WikiLeaks...[Edward] Snowden. And then watching the documentary, working on the film, you got to see his personal journey through this and sort of understand more about what he went through.

  Scott Eastwood

  Journey, Differences, Wikileaks

  "Scott Eastwood Explains What Drew Him To Snowden". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 15, 2016.

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• People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.

  Jane Mayer

  People, Paper Towels, Dixie

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe to be wrong. They want to return to the nation-state. Sometimes there is even a blood and soil rhetoric that for me is starkly reminiscent of the interwar years of the past century, whose demons we are still all too familiar with.

  Martin Schulz

  Past, Blood, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

  Curtis Hanson

  Eye, Unique, Views

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Home, People, Would Be

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.

  Sam Heughan

  Smell, Childhood, Comforting

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Thinking, Want, Looks

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Play, People, Scary

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

  Bryan Cranston

  Teacher, Cancer, School

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae, wearing them like masks, and then discarding them as soon as they grew too familiar.

  Jay Michaelson

  Self, Years, Funny Things

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Character, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar with, and then the second half, just to see all those archetypes unravel like real people.

  Ti West

  Real, Giving, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Thinking, People, Candide

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation. It goes into opening a new vista, opening a new perspective, showing familiar things in an unfamiliar way, and making the reader reconsider the documentary facts which he or she may have known before.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Perspective, Documentation

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• If one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence came back today, he would not be surprised about what Americans were saying and believing and articulating in their public statements. It would all sound rather familiar.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Believe, Independence, Sound

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Europe, Language, Problem

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• That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much more at ease with them at the outset, and they were all kind of familiar with the shorthand that the Coens had.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Ease, Kind, Josh

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia. He started, he just loved the world and he started reading a lot of mythology, which most people are not that familiar with.

  Ron Clements

  Reading, Ideas, People

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Biblical, Vocabulary, Landscape

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• I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.

  Liza Campbell

  Flower, Book, Writing

  Source: newwest.net

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• The ego, as our familiar sense of self, seems predicated on fear. The fear that we might not make it, that we might not get where we want to go. But deep down there is also a grain of fear that we have nothing to give or nothing to offer. I think that's the ego's justifiable anxiety about its substantiality and existence.

  Roger Housden

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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