Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird effect on people. It creates a familiarity that is possibly not always justified. I think that's interesting and I think it's nice to be able to incorporate it into films, because most of us can relate to that now.
Familiarity breeds contentment.
Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
Familiarity breeds democracry.
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
We also confuse trust with familiarity.
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc. , you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
