“When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.” KnowsCountryFilmLanguagePlayerLandStrangeTvsLike YouCoupleStrangerVisitingForeign CountriesAbnormalityStranger In A Strange Land Author:Anthony Heald
“A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.” PeopleArtistFoundResultsCasesLike YouBedMeetingsStrangerFactoriesFamous ArtistWarhol Author:Bob Colacello
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.” IfsWantGivingDoeSaidUseHomeWould BeMotherGirlNamesSpeakLanguageBoysClearTeacherLike YouAskingStrangerIntimacyLoudAppropriateInstructionClassroomNunInappropriateBoy And GirlNicknamesSpeak Now Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll go "(bleep) you!" Or I say something serious and they go, "Oh, yeah, ha-ha." They're strangers. They're people who know me from comedy, but luckily I am on pretty much all the time!” PeopleThinkingKnowsComedySeriousLike YouDressesYeahStrangerSarcasticKnow MeI Like YouBeing Sarcastic Author:Sarah Silverman