Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“You’ll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar.” — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign. — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. — Deborah Ann Woll Copy Share Image
I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with. — Trace Adkins Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that… — Ti West Copy Share Image
Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory… — David C. Cassidy Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
On the first one, X-Men: First Class, it would be James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult and I. I'd basically inhale, there would be… — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,'… — Anthony Pilla Copy Share Image
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to… — Jherek Bischoff Copy Share Image
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![“We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/743/warren-mackenzie-4654_awareness_we-became-more-familiar-with-bernard-lea_1539867.jpg)
