“The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.” PeopleWritingFirstsStoriesFallActorsNew YorkMovedFamiliarTerritoryConfessionAutobiographyGroundedPersonal ExperiencesTrajectory Author:Debra Dean
“I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.” WantGivingYearsStillsFeelingsRememberSongFeltHeardUniversalGive MeFamiliarSubconsciousRemember WhenWombGospel MusicGospel Songs Author:M. Ward
“It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.” KnowsFeelsMadeBookMatterReasonWholeCultureReadingEnergyEasySpacePopsFamiliarConsumersPop CultureResistingUnfamiliar Author:Lucy Corin
“I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with.” ThinkingDifferentFamiliarHeroismSuperheroPackages Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.” ThinkingWritingBookRememberNamesFunEasyProcessWonderfulMaterialsStructureFamiliarFantasticNarrativeCharmPlotEntertainingIngenuityIntricate Author:Marina Warner
“Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.” PeopleTryingKindAbleUsedArtistParentTermNovelNiceGenerationsEasierFamiliarUsed To BeMagazinesEtcDreadPornographyIntroductionGraphicGraphic NovelsIllustrators Author:Adrian Tomine
“Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.” CountryCareGroupsEmpathyResourcesStrangerFamiliarOur Country Author:Paul Bloom
“Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.” WorldNovelPeriodsDramaFamiliarJaneAustenJane Austen Novel Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw
“Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.” IfsWorldWantFilmJudgingAmbitionCrossesUniversalNotionChecksLocalsFamiliarLike MeBordersCinemaPalestineRight PlaceFamiliar Places Author:Elia Suleiman
“When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.” PeoplePersonsDoeDifferentPlayTogetherTurnsStuffLet MeMusicalBackgroundsFamiliarEnjoyableGet Together Author:Robbie Robertson
“And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.” ThinkingFeelsImportantWarCharacterFeelingsKidsFoundStarsParentGoneEmbraceFamiliarBrandsBrand NewRetro Author:J. J. Abrams
“I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches.” PeopleIfsCountryFacesActorsPoliticianSpeechCancerFamiliarBreastsSurvivorBreast CancerIntriguedCancer SurvivorBreast Cancer Survivor Author:Diahann Carroll
“Not a lot of gay guys end up coming to alt-comedy-ish shows. They like all these '80s shimmer shows, or they like going to drag shows. It is always weird and interesting when I meet somebody at a gay bar who is familiar with my stuff.” EndsShowsGuyStuffInterestingComedyGayBarsFamiliarDrag80sShimmerGay Guy Author:Guy Branum
“I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.” PeopleThinkingIdeasCountryFactsEarthCommunityHoursJusticeRecordsEconomicsClintonCriminalsFamiliarAfrican AmericanAgendasJailOther CountriesSecretaryPenaltiesMinimumDeath PenaltyMinimum WageCriminal JusticeAgainst Death Penalty Author:Bernie Sanders
“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.” IfsShouldMindPhilosophyCoursesLiteratureSimpleNumbersBrainIdentityRemainsPhilosopherFamiliarPsychologicalExplanationGapsTopicsShockingIntuitivePsychologistHeadingsPlausibleTheoristsDualismDevelopmental Author:David Papineau
“So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very good chance that there is another Earth-like planet out there that is able to support some kind of life similar to what we're familiar with.” FeelsKindAbleEarthUniverseStarsChanceSupportPlanetsVery GoodFamiliarGalaxyGood Chance Author:Brian Greene
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.” PeopleIfsPersonsIdeasHelpingBodyFilmFacesGuyWatchesSonPerspectiveShotsFamiliarGasConcentrationCategoriesCampsInteractionChamberConcentration CampGas Chambers Author:Bun B
“Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way and I think, "I could sing that song. I've got something to say about that song. Wanting to connect with an audience and wanting them to rethink songs; it is actually important to do songs they're familiar with. Also, I love those songs. In a way, I think I've changed people's perceptions of what a cabaret show like this could be.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentShowsSongAudienceChangedPerceptionFamiliarDifferent WaysClicksI've ChangedCabaret Author:Alan Cumming
“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.” PeopleIfsWarStarsCommonFamiliarRelate Author:Adam Reed
“My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.” WorldCharacterEasyAbilityPathInfluenceStyleFamiliarUpbringingLife PathSimulateAbility To Adapt Author:Aeriel Miranda
“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.” IfsKindIdeasDifferentHappensPracticePathMeditationGoes OnTraditionCarefulFamiliarBuddhistNo IdeaBe CarefulVisualizationMantrasMixing Author:Sakyong Mipham
“First of all, it's a blast. Just fun; it's a good environment to play. And Jayne and I have a great time together because we're somewhat familiar with each other; that's a fun and comfortable place to start at when building our relationship. Everyone's incredible and they're good at what they do.” FirstsPlayTogetherFunEnvironmentBuildingComfortableIncrediblesFamiliarOur RelationshipBlastGreat TimesTime Together Author:Kendra Kassebaum
“I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.” ThinkingKnowsHelpingHomeLightNightFireComfortFamiliarBeachConsistentWarmthCandleComfortingFireplacesFlickering Light Author:Evangeline Lilly
“William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.” IfsHas BeensSaidSoundPoetMusicianMy FavoriteFamiliarAll TimeBlakeSound Of Music Author:Benjamin Clementine
“With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.” TryingWould BeEasyMy OwnFamiliarGet Away Author:Beck
“When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.” MindIdeasStatesHonestConversationFamiliarState Of MindReverting Author:Alan Palomo
“Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.” RelationRateFamiliarFunctionality Author:Alan Palomo
“I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.” IfsThinkingWayTogetherSoundInterestingStyleFamiliarJust OneNew Ways Author:Britta Phillips
“I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.” FirstsWellsBookActorsSeasonsBillsSeriesFamiliarSavagesSageTerrificScreenplaysChristina Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.” WayImportantRecordsArgumentFamiliarRuinsCollectingRecorded Music Author:Keith Fullerton Whitman
“Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.” SelfUsedCasesSubjectsShapesFamiliarPlanesDullFar AwaySimilarity Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“I was, like, a brown belt, which is pretty good. I entered a tournament once, and I punched the guy in the throat and got disqualified. I realized - I don't know if you're familiar with "Karate Kid," but the bad guys in that are called Cobra Kai, and they're, like, the evil karate guys. And then when I went to the tournament, I realized that's what we were; we were like the Cobra Kai of the Jewish karate community.” IfsKnowsKidsGuyEvilCommunityI RealizedFamiliarBrownThroatBad GuysBeltsTournamentsKarateCobras Author:Seth Rogen
“Oddly enough, I've always - I've never actually seen "The Alamo" itself, actually. So I don't really have the association of "Green Leaves of Summer" as being "The Alamo" theme. Oddly enough, I grew up watching kung fu movies. They would use the theme "Green Leaves of Summer" in a lot of needle drops in kung fu movies a lot. So I was actually more familiar with it in a Bruce Li movie than I was actually from the John Wayne film.” EnoughUseFilmGrewSummerGrew UpGreenFamiliarThemeAssociationNeedlesWayneKung FuAlamoGreen LeavesKung Fu Movie Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.” IfsWorldWellsGrowsStageReadyComfortablePhotographyCamerasFamiliarIntimacyGentleProductiveSatisfyingPartnershipAwkwardTake TimeAccompanyCaressFondlingWell Soon Author:Bill Jay
“The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?” PeopleSawsInvisibleFamiliar Book:Ashes Source: Ashes
“I had many reasons for writing this book but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. And my hope is that when they finish reading the book, that they will come away with a renewed sense of pride in our culture and in who we are. We get a lot of strength from that [culture and identity] and we should be proud of it.” ShouldWritingChildrenBookReasonCultureReadingIdentityPrideProudAdultsFamiliarWho We AreBe ProudLatino Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.” WantTryingSoundFansInstrumentsGuitarFocusedFamiliarPianoMelody Author:Seungri
“Having been familiar with "drunk" once or twice myself, that lick just came to me - and yeah, it sounded very drunk, so I presented it to Alice [Cooper]. It felt like he wrote the lyrics in about a minute.” FeltMinutesYeahFamiliarDrunk Author:Johnny Depp
“I really love the smoked ice cream because it's so unexpected. Yet when you taste it, it's sort of familiar and otherworldly at the same time. I guess that's what I really like about what smoke does to food.” DoeTasteFamiliarIceSmokeUnexpectedCreamIce Cream Author:Steven Raichlen
“I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.” YearsTwoParentNew YorkMetsMovedRaisedUniversityFamiliarTwo YearsSouthernMississippiRio Author:Fred Armisen
“Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.” ThinkingDifferentDarkComedyToo MuchMaterialsDramaFamiliarHuntsSubversiveStreaks Author:Sam Neill
“Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.” UsedLiteratureMagicSouthFamiliarPhrasesBellsRealismAmerican LiteratureMagic Realism Author:Sam Neill
“I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they didn't do as much of when the show was 100 percent written by Brits just because I'm not sure they were quite as familiar with some of these little moments in our government system.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentMomentsShowsGovernmentFunWrittenPercentFamiliarNot SureDifferent ThingsFun ThingsBritsLittle Moments Author:David Mandel
“It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.” PeopleThinkingDifferentTogetherHouseChildhoodTypeNormalFamiliarLakesRelatableDifferent PlaceGet Together Author:Steve Carell
“It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].” FeelsFilmFamiliarCopiesAnxiousDetachedScreening Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.” MenWellsFeelingsFilmResponsibilitySawsAnxietyFamiliarCopiesFrench Woman Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a clear cut pattern of people wanting to contribute, not only artistically, but in some practical purpose, for the benefits of the community.” PeopleIfsArtPurposeLiteratureCommunityClearCuttingBenefitsPatternsPracticalsFamiliar Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But just as my editions have tried to balance the familiar with the new, the commercial with the scholarly, so too I have to admit that I don't want to do editing for the sake of it, and some possible projects would be of uncertain value to me.” WantDoneWould BeValuesBalanceProjectsSakeFamiliarFortunateUncertainEditingPrivilegedEditorialsScholarly Author:Oliver Harris
“The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.” PeopleProtectOceanSurfaceInvisibleFamiliarEcosystemsBelow The Surface Author:Jon Bowermaster
“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.” IfsWorldGivingStillsDoneSeemsDiesReadyGiving UpScaredFamiliarLet It GoHanging OnReady To Die Author:Sebastian Junger