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• I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.

  Rashida Jones

  Thinking, Long, Trying

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• It's just all love. That's what music is. That's why music is created. To make people feel good, to uplift people. That's what musicians are for: to give everyone an escape, to let everyone feel good and take people out of everyday problems, so that they can hear music and sing words that are hopefully relatable.

  Bruno Mars

  Uplifting, Everyday Problems, People

  Source: www.cityweekend.com.cn

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• I think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, White, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Ideas, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• Please make me either relatable or terrible.

  Jami Attenberg

  Terrible, Please

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• I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thirst, Feels, Inclination

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

  Hannah Arendt

  Exercise, Thinking, Should Have

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind of artist manqu on the brink of discovering that life is a more difficult business than he ever had reason to expect. . . . The subject matter is 'relatable,' as my students like to say. Better still, though, is what you can learn about the craft of writing from this marvelous book. . . . Indeed, if you're looking for a funny, nonportentous Hemingway, then the early Powell is your man.

  Blake Bailey

  Book, Writing, Men

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• The adults were completely wrong.

  Aaron Swartz

  Adults

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• Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

  Chance the Rapper

  Trying, Stories

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• I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Character, Thinking, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

  J. J. Abrams

  People, Insane, Stories

  "Director J.J. Abrams feels lucky to land 'Force' job". Interview with Rick Bentley, www.fresnobee.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Empathy

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• For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

  Macklemore

  Artist, Able, Life Is

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?"

  Paul Banks

  Taken, Thinking, Misunderstood

  "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.

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• But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Play, Mirrors

  "The Scourge of 'Relatability'". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Always Trying, People, Want

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Groups, Attention, Jockeys

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• Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

  Joe Madureira

  Character, Unique, Flaws

  "'Darksiders' Joe Madureira talks death, war, and comics". Interview with Jason Cipriano, www.mtv.com. April 15, 2012.

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• I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is.

  Tamara Keith

  Honesty, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the most interesting things for me in playing another species is that you want to make them different enough to be alien but have enough human qualities to be relatable. This really forces you to look at what it is to be human from a totally new perspective!

  Jaime Murray

  Interesting, Perspective, Quality

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.

  Alia Shawkat

  Character, Acting, Kind

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.

  Judd Apatow

  Girl, Stars, Lost Love

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.

  Rob Lowe

  Laughing, Roles, Scripts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.

  Bryan Cranston

  Fun, Character, Loss

  Source: collider.com

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