#familiar

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#advantageous #already #director #familiarity #feel

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dead #especially #europeans #experienced #familiar

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#aggressor #dictatorial #familiar #goals #his

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport. ↗

— Junior Seau

#beating #church #conversation #course #everyone

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. ↗

— Latrell Sprewell

#back #come #faces #familiar #feels

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#been #before #between #current #cut

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#certain #characteristic #chemical #come #conditions

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belongs #boldly #building #engage #fact

Strangers are only offensive when they offer courteous greetings. It abolishes the impartial judgment needed for a just society. ↗

— Bauvard

#familiarity #funny #humor #justice #strangers

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. ↗

— William Safire

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