When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.” — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. — Denis McDonough Copy Share Image
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. — Iain Glen Copy Share Image
I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not… — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you… — Britta Phillips Copy Share Image
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I… — Arthur P. Warner Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is not enough Bible-reading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually READ it, and PRAY… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
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