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“Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.”

People Long Certain Values Known Share Long Time Peter Beard Affinity

Author:Terry Southern

“New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.”

Home Artist Certain Teach Gone Share Return Discipline Skills Independence Horizon Mentor Peers Here I Am New Artists Skills And Knowledge

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.”

Thinking Way Ideas Together Certain Easy Share Working Together Sensibility Coordinates

Author:Barbara Crampton

“I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.”

Thinking Art Film Certain Quality Share Visuals Similarity Hyper Lowbrow

Author:John Waters

“Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.”

“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”

Knows Men World Way Different Stories Light Together Night Certain Forget Share Quiet Silent Sentences Brilliant Firm Attributes Steady Colleagues Wedges Synonym Reminiscing Bright Lights

Author:Tahereh Mafi

“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.”

Spirit Certain Share Healthy Capacity Devotion Characteristics Endurance Possessed Psychics Inquiring Sensing

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.”

Artist Certain Common Quality Share Obsession Characteristics

Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith