#liar

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. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#familiar #familiarize #imagine #mystify #power

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#became #certainly #deeply #dolls #i

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#exotic #feel #great #i #i feel

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#generally #hasn #i #liar #lie

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#field #kind #marked #peculiar #plant

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #bottom #bottom line #decisions

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. ↗

— David Naughton

#doing #familiar #i #musical #musical theatre

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#important #me #more #music #none

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do. ↗

— Ednita Nazario

#auditioned #broadway #familiar #had #i

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#common #familiar #ideas #men #more