Quotes About Familiarity

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.

I could be ordering ham at the deli, and someone will turn around and look at me and kind of stare. They'll just look at me like, 'I know I know your voice, and I know I know your face.'

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they're thinking, 'How do I know her? Did I go to high school with her?' I think it's not registering yet.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.

Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

I have a normal life; I don't do anything crazy.

I went to college in North Carolina, so something about being in the East Coast is home for me.

It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.

The warmest place I've ever been is my home here in Chapel Hill. It's an oasis of comfort and joy for me.

Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.