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Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
I mostly paint animals I'm familiar with, but I did a series of paintings of ravens, so I read everything about them.
I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.
I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program.
Having served in both Pakistan and India, I'm familiar with how their nuclear armament influenced regional stability.
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.
The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.
I think that survivorship bias, the survivorship bias is something I'm very acutely familiar with because of investing.
For me, working on the sets with Mani Ratnam is so familiar. It is the place where I grew up, so I am not nervous here.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.
I was familiar with the Heat and their culture because I played with Dexter Pittman and he was here early in his career.
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
I know I'm skilled - I know my background - and the people who are familiar with my credentials know better than to try me.
Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.
It's always great fighting in front of familiar faces and not having to travel and deal with jet-lag and all of that stuff.
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
People wrote so negatively about me, but generally, the people who are familiar with football know my strengths and abilities.
Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
The name Albert Murray was never household familiar. Yet he was one of the truly original minds of 20th-century American letters.
It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.
I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think, one of my gifts.