#familiar

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#communicated #complex #considerable #distant #distortion

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#direct #familiar #film #first #start

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was. ↗

— Eric Massa

#familiar #i #myself #never #should

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#catastrophe #comes #control #familiar #feeling

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#answer #any #city #country #familiar

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#familiar #familiarize #imagine #mystify #power

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #bottom #bottom line #decisions

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

— David Naughton

#doing #familiar #i #musical #musical theatre

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#important #me #more #music #none

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

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