Familiar Quotes - Page 35

• My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.

  Ashley Rickards

  Light, Play, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Girl, Writing, School

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

  Satyajit Ray

  Writing, Hands, People

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said "African" instead of "Nubian" or "Black" or "Kemet" or "original" or "Israelite," don't be so foolish. I say "African" because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

  Sister Souljah

  Land, Black, Foolish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

  Johannes Stark

  Light, Atoms, Wave

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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• We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Writing, Who I Am

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• London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

  Jude Law

  Nice, Home, London

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• I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

  Michael Shannon

  Names, People, Matter

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Pride, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.109, Criss Jami

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• I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Writing, Adversity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.110, Criss Jami

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• To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Two, Three, Four

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• I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Patterns, Individual

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

  Paul Auster

  Taken, Eye, Thinking

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• The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Communication, Technology, Skills

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

  Mary Oliver

  Spiritual, Fun, Lovely

  "Long Life: Essays and Other Writings". Book by Mary Oliver, 2004.

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• Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

  John Bartlett

  Mother, Clever, Nice

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• There are people, particularly in the United States with which I am most familiar, who would say how ironic that Tehran would be the sponsor of an anti-terrorism conference, because there are people who say that Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Iran, People, Ironic

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• The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Elude Us, Trying, Meaning Nothing

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• I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

  Martin Parr

  Thinking, Ordinary, Aspect

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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  Community, House, Generations

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• The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

  Keith Carradine

  Genre Is, Genre, Western

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• The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Real, Example, May

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.3, MIT Press

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• I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Summer, Song, Sleep

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