"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."

Familiarity, Result, Spiritual, Trying

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"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."

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"When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."

Brian Greene, American Physicist

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"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."

Campbell Scott, American Actor

Familiarity, Result, Spiritual, Trying

"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Familiarity, Trust, Comfort, History

"You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties."

Lois Greiman, American Author

Familiarity, Affection, Knowledge, Affection, Humor

"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

Alex North, American Composer

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"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody."

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"I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them."

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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."

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"I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that."

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"Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst."

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"Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much."

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"I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place."

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