Quotes About Familiarity

You are unlikely to eat something if you don't know what it is.

It's a truism that we know what we like and we like what we know. If you ask young children which foods they most detest, they tend to be the ones they have never actually tasted, often vegetables.

Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard.

a face you know intimately is most disturbingly altered when it's altered only slightly;

also made me feel at home.

If I've learned anything in nearly 12 years now of dragging heavy things around cold places, it is that true, real inspiration and growth only comes from adversity and from challenge, from stepping away from what's comfortable and familiar and stepping out into the unknown… I certainly would implore you to open the door just a little bit and take a look at what's outside.

Se aman por rutina, y apenas se dan cuenta de su felicidad

I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

When you're a regular on your own show, there's a comfort level that you have with the crew and the other castmates, so going into work can feel like going to your second home.

What people respond to is intimacy and regularity.

I think people like players they can relate to. It seems as if people think they know me. I just think I'm an ordinary Joe who plays golf very, very well.

Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.

Because everyone grows up together in my small hometown, everyone knows everyone else. And there are such large extended families that a lot of people are related to each other.

All my relatives and friends have been pretty aware of my brand of humor for a while, so none of them have been shocked.

When mom is cooking, we are more in a routine. You can better relax when you go through things like you usually do. It is more comfortable.

Every dog is a lion at home.

I love the Old Vic so deeply, it's like a second home.

In my hometown, I know everybody.

If you're going to break out anywhere it would be nice to break out in your hometown.

Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

I grew up in a house with all girls, so I'm used to having a lot of hormones around that can create craziness.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.