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#unfamiliar

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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.


Karl Pilkington


#book #comfortable #days #did #different

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.


William Safire


#especially #exquisite #feel #flatters #i

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.


Sonia Sotomayor


#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.


Dick York


#arms #floor #go #had #i

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.


Denis Waitley


#break #comfort #comfort zone #comfortable #creative

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.


Marshall McLuhan


#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.


Bell Hooks


#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.


Thomas Mann


#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.


Harold Brodkey


#being #combines #die #i #ill

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#originality #plagiarizing #something #unfamiliar #usually






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