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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.

~Aaron Douglas

Topics: Actor Coming Familiar Get Gig Keep Lot Money Really Shows Sometimes Stress Take Trying Unemployed Want You

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I'm drawn to scenes in movies where you just see characters turning off lights in a room or putting the groceries away; it's like, 'I understand that.' We all have to get ready for bed, and we all do it in a different way, and yet it's all strangely familiar and strangely human.

~Abigail Spencer

Topics: Away Bed Characters Different Different Way Drawn Familiar Get Groceries Human Just Lights Like Movies Off Putting Ready Room Scenes See Strangely Turning Understand Way Where You

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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

~Adam Beach

Topics: Advisor American Canada Cousin Familiar Growing Growing Up History Indian Ira Military Myself Native Natives Often Spiritual Story The History Of Up Very Veterans Who

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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Connected Creative Explain Familiar Generate Ideas Important Place Something Start Those Unusual

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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Accustomed Along Bringing Chili Cuisine Ease Exotic Familiar Flavors Foods Fussy Hassle Holiday Home Joe Kinds Little Mean Nepal New Rejecting Sampling Supply Sure Uncle Vacation Whether Your

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The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Art Cartoonists Charge Covers Easy Editor Familiar Her New New Yorker Personalities She Very Working Yorker

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I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

~Adrian Tomine

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If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

~Alan Alda

Topics: Better Cases Communicate Could Even Familiar General General Public Less More Other Own People Public Range Scientists Some Specialized Them Tone Understand Understood Vocabulary Voices Wide Wide Range Work Would

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It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?

~Alan Ball

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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

~Alan Ball

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