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I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.

~David Ebershoff

Topics: Around Enthusiasm Familiar Fifteen First Found Gay Grew Hair Intolerance Kinds Letter Me People Read Religious Scarlet Sinners Special Tears Up Vision 1980S

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Christmas is a time for slipping into familiar patterns.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Christmas Familiar Patterns Slipping Time

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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.

~David Lowery

Topics: About All People Anymore Around Come Death Ego Exist Existing Fact Familiar Gymnastics Head Idea Just Longer Loss Lot Mental People Point Really Reconcile Some Terms Think Thinking Tough Trying Very Will Wrap You Your I Think

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A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set down long before you were born - when the country was primarily windblown dust, open wagon trains, and dysfunctional towns like Deadwood.

~David Means

Topics: Before Born Country Deadwood Down Dust Dysfunctional Familiar Folk Form Good Know Like Long Open Primarily Set Something Song Tells Terms Towns Trains Wagon Were You

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Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

~David Naughton

Topics: Been Doing Familiar Musical Musical Theatre Something Theatre

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I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Aspire Been Begin End Essays Familiar Hope Me Personal Say Successful Universal Write

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When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Again Always Chance Comfortable Develop Everybody Faces Familiar Free Get Going Knows Material More More People Music Musicians Nice People Play Same See Shorthand Start Surprises Then Where You

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As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

~David Stras

Topics: Am Anyone Familiar Fan Huge Huge Fan Inherent Knows Most Powers Scholarship I Am

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In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

~David Twohy

Topics: Always Audience Blend Familiar Fiction Futuristic Grab Movies Onto Science Science Fiction Something Too Try

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The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.

~David Wong

Topics: Adaptation Audience Because Choices Familiar Get Give Hollywood Many Only Out Overwhelmed Reason Sequels Something Theater Them Way Why

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