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Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.
For those who are familiar with my work, 'Soulfire' is a return to how most people identify me, which is that soul-meets-rock thing.
I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.
At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.
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.
It's really important to have subjects that people all over the world are familiar with, and the Disney films are really great that way.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.
I'd lived in West Virginia on and off for four to five years growing up. I'm familiar with Bible Belt, with Appalachia, 'Hillbilly Elegy.'
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
Our main funders... a lot of them are entrepreneurs and technologists themselves as well and familiar with iterative development processes.
For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.
'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone's familiar with that.
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.
The dictionary contains thousands of words on Tamil music. I am not familiar with most of the words, but it shows the rich past of Tamil music.
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
Home cooks are finding inspiration in the past, digging up centuries-old recipes more familiar to the likes of Thomas Jefferson than Thomas Keller.
Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.
We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
Hyderabad's quite a familiar place to me! One of my best friends stays here in Jubilee Hills. Her house was where I used to crash after a long day.
I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.
If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
I am familiar with the Odiyan legend, as my mother used to tell me that her grandmother would narrate the Odiyan tales while she grew up in Palakkad.
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.