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• Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

  Celine Dion

  Dream, People, Details

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• Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Challenges, Tragedy, Needs

  Roger Ebert (2016). “The Great Movies IV”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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• I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Movie, Musical, Auditions

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• One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Eye, Journey

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• A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Simple, Ideas

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Self, Goal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Critical, Knows

  "Bombing Our Illusions" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  Faith Hill

  Good Day, Feet, Giving

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• Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Miracle, Corny

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you've never done it before.

  Sebastian Junger

  Giving Up, Let It Go, Hanging On

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• I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Song, People, Trying

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• It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Responsibility, Experts

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Smart, Lying, Race

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• At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

  Jessica Lange

  Loss, Tragedy, Corny

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• The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, News, Demand

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics”, p.520, W. W. Norton & Company

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• These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

  Ang Lee

  Movie, Mean, Two

  Interview with Nancy Miller, www.lamag.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

  Dave Matthews

  Silence, Feelings, Situation

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• In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Night, Light

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 48), 1949.

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• There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Greatest Treasure, People, Way

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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

  Margaret Mead

  Country, Next Week, Cities

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Elaine Partnow "The New Quotable Woman: From Eve To the Present Day" (p. 331), 1993.

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  Henry Miller

  Fear, Men, Matter

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

  Moby

  Looks, Rooms, Strange

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