Familiarity Quotes - Page 10

• I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

  Feist

  Grateful, Chance

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

  Edith Wharton

  Facts, Wells, Knows

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Touchstone: American Literature”, p.66, VM eBooks

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• I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

  Mario Batali

  Thinking, Southern, Spices

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Slave, Popularity

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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• Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Water Bottles, Comfort

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• After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, People, Age

  Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Facts, Familiar, Hardest

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.3, Rowman Altamira

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• Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, Existence, Elsewhere

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• Living in England has no such excuse:
  These are my customs and establishments.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, England, Excuse

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster

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• I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

  Jackie French

  Book, Thinking, World

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the throne, he would play lightheartedly. When we were alone together, he would sing me little songs; I don't remember his ever doing this in front of others, but when only the two of us were there, he would often sing to me.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Song, Kindness, Father

  "Mission for my Country". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 45, 1961.

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• To me, making a horror movie is about how you can present similar genre familiarities, but present them a little bit differently. Part of what interests me is the nonchalant realism of it, because you don't get that in the big studio horror movies. I like seeing someone walk around a house and sift through the drawers, and things like that, because that reminds me of what I would do, and of weird personal choices that people would make. That, in contrast to seeing someone get chased with a knife, makes it all the more interesting.

  Ti West

  People, Interesting, Choices

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever a part for me, he would consider me for it. I hope so. Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, other times it helps you. It's just amazing to work with his scripts. There's never any fat in them. It's all perfect, and there's such a rhythm to it. The musicality of his writing - it's so specific and unique to him, and such a joy to play as an actor, because there's no sentimentality.

  Allison Janney

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Lasts, Chance, Can Do

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

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• If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But it takes a lot of study and familiarity with the work for anyone to really "decode" it, and there are also images that are just thematically important, and not necessarily pointing to specific poems, so mainly it was just a fun puzzle for ourselves.

  Sarah Kay

  Fun, Illustration, Giving

  Source: journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com

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• As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.

  Henry Rollins

  Space, Band, Proximity

  Source: emptylighthouse.com

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• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

  David Berman

  Wall, Blessed, Knowledge

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• Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

  John Locke

  Ignorance, Use, Wonder

  John Locke (1706). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books”, p.379

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• We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

  Susan Orlean

  Animal, Different, Creatures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Space, Facts

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.176, Broadview Press

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• Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

  Goodman Ace

  House, East, Today

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• Advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

  Paul Cookson

  Advertising, Produce

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• Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

  Matthew Underwood

  Opportunity, Journey, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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