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When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. Helena Bonham Carter
You Young Something Write Safe Very Familiar Children Want Young Children
While families in South India are familiar with Soundaryalahari, I wanted others to know of it, too. Hema Malini
Too Others India Know South Familiar Families Wanted While
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. Henry Miller
Man Strange Fear Matter Nothing Once Enslaved Guise About Something Him Without Itself Familiar Which Who Appears Presents
Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. Herman Wouk
Speak Strong Live Mine Way Sons Judaism Always Been Familiar Hebrew Literature Interest Scriptures Two
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white composers and lyricists often still rely on familiar tropes when it comes to representing black women in musicals. Hilton Als
Life Change Women Black Stage White Musicals Composers Rely Although How Still Lot Familiar American Did Often Representing Movement Sixties Fifties
It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears. Howard Jacobson
Music Age Our Ears Way Say Spirit Only Never Openly Sort Another Because Exhilarating Hearing Familiar Times Orchestra Just Orchestral Grand Place Against Public Prefer Full Less Popular Popular Music
Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed. Hozier
Me Social Media Will Self Towards Attitudes Encourages Familiar Close Behaviour Anyone Frustrations Social Breed Certain Aspects Media
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. Hugh Mackay
Love Culture Our Worships Seek Almost Idea Although Comfortable Familiar Refuge Choice
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. Iain Glen
Time You Try Giving Energy Down Having Familiar Where Bursts Then Actor Things
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. Ice T
Future Cinema Own Way Telling Take Put Audio Familiar Just Screen Want Stories Hollywood
I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built. Iman Shumpert
Buy Culture Starts Everyone Once Collectively Something Guy Know Sort Built Familiar Get Going Being Then Ingredients Start
It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face. Isabel Gillies
Work You Face Become Own Skin Bit Easy More Feel Smooth Familiar Oil Little Little Bit Requires Your Rub
Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly. Ismail Kadare
Life Dictatorship My Life Spent Punished Guilty Must General Having Mentality Eminent Part Particular Greater Always Am According Accordingly Very Familiar Author Which Communist Bolshevik
When I was growing up in Israel, Cantorial music was something I heard over and over on the radio, so it wasn't at all strange to me. I was very familiar with the music. Itzhak Perlman
Music Me Strange Something Over Israel Heard Up Very Familiar Radio Growing Growing Up
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.' Jacki Weaver
Song Yesterday Separation Our Williams Neil Degrees Born Simon Tennessee Tennessee Williams Performance Stuff Lot Very Familiar Arthur Sisters America American Did Done Six Miller Playing Plays
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. Jackson Katz
Women People Enough Wrestling Badly Know Most WWE Narratives How Women Are Familiar Goes Just Professional Actually Treated
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. Jacques Audiard
Films Extraordinary Nuts See New Reach Beyond Audiences Truly Familiar Get Move Public Gratifying Chance
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. Jacques Barzun
Me Sense Others Pound Names House Household Around Duchamp Were Familiar Literal Figures Many Marie
I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them. Jake Gyllenhaal
Me Sometimes School Thought Parents Sets High Would High School Something Also Audition Surprise Up Familiar Get Just Movie Grew Them Then Growing Growing Up Found Things
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with. Jake Shimabukuro
Music You Better Nothing Relate Kids Songs Sharing Like Talking Familiar Than Just Them Play Need
I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with. James Adomian
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I first became familiar with Dave Eggers's work when I was living in San Francisco and enrolled at USF's MFA Program. James Bernard Frost
Work First Living Enrolled Francisco Dave Became Familiar San San Francisco Program
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse. James Fenton
Practice Other Range Kinds Poetic Hymn Reach Ballad Lines Verse Familiar Form Length English Whole Basic Four
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. James Galway
You Running Boredom Seed Through Because Familiar Them Breeds Routine Things
I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men. James Wan
Character People Reading Think Say Never Like Most Peripheral Up Familiar Grew In-Depth Depth Watching
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. James Wolcott
Reality Superior Fools Judgment Sit Strangers Down Carefully TV Easy Direction Only Feel Looks Make Him Edited Permit Intact Passivity Chicken Familiar Reality TV Themselves Viewer Her Watching Pampered Kept
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