Quotes About Familiarity

In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

I get lost in my own house - and it's not even a big house.

Birmingham is my second home.

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

Once you eat, talk, share, sleep, wake-up with the same people, you tend to form bonds.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

I feel like Boston is a second home for me.

I kind of look at Boston as my second home.

I don't really know any people from Boston.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.

I saw 'Brooklyn' so many times.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

I'll babble, bubble and talk around those I know real good.

I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.

Working with Rajamouli and Karan is home ground for me now, having worked with them for such a long time.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

I am star-struck but also I've known a lot of people for a long time. Like I'm super star-struck by Grant Lee Phillips and Jon Brion but I've known them for 17 years. So it's kinda like weird to be star-struck still, but I still am!

It is you; you are the light around these familiar intimate things.

Yo creo que casi todas nuestras tristezas son momentos de tensión que experimentamos como si se tratara de una parálisis. Porque ya no percibimos el vivir de nuestros sentidos enajenados, y nos encontramos solos con lo extraño que ha penetrado en nosotros. Porque se nos arrebata por un instante todo cuanto nos es familiar, habitual. Y porque nos hallamos en medio de una transición, en la cual no podemos detenernos.