Lupita Nyong'o

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

Mexican Actress

Wesley Morris

One result of moviemaking - and a side effect of moviegoing - is familiarity. If an actor is particularly good, familiarity opens into something deeper: care, concern, identification, empathy. Yet even those concepts can feel inadequate for some actors.

American Critic

Rashid Johnson

As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.

American Photographer

Matthew Underwood

Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

American Actor

Gavin Newsom

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

American Politician

Louise Nurding

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

British Musician

Julianne Moore

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.

American Actress

Roy Choi

When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.

South Korean Chef

Saskya Pandita

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Leader

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

English Actor

Use 'familiarity' to express your level of experience and comfort with a topic or skill.

Experience Level

'Familiarity' often implies a regular interaction or exposure to something, leading to knowledge about it.

Frequency Matters

Having 'familiarity' with something doesn't always mean being an expert, but rather having a comfortable understanding.

Not Expertise

Use 'familiarity' to describe a warm or friendly relationship where people are at ease with each other.

Social Warmth

'Familiarity' can reflect an informal social setting where formalities are reduced or absent.

Informality

Refers often to longstanding relationships or connections formed over time.

Historical Bonds

'Familiarity' can imply inappropriate closeness or overstepping social boundaries.

Unwelcome Closeness

What's seen as 'familiarity' can vary with cultural norms; it's crucial to be aware of different comfort levels.

Cultural Sensitivity

 Practicing any task increases your familiarity and reduces anxiety, so when it's time to speak in public, you're confident in yourself and the task at hand. Steve Jobs rehearsed his epic speeches for hundreds of hours, starting weeks in advance. If you know what you're saying, you'll feed off the crowd's energy

The science of stage...

 custom you know the habit dedenne's you know the film of familiarity and I think ah makes things new again and I think that's ultimately the best drug in the world that's the breakfast all ease salvation you said that once in an interview yes I did I just you know there was a recent article that I read

Expanding your mind with...

 may do poorly, telling us more about the test taker's cultural familiarity than their academic learning. In these cases, the tests may need to be designed differently. Standardized tests can also have a hard time measuring abstract characteristics or skills,

Should we get rid of...

 You become morally judgmental. You become an extreme version of yourself. If you're a conservative, you become more conservative. If you're a liberal, you become more liberal. Because you go to a place of familiarity. The problem is that the world changes.

How we experience awe --...

 Sometimes I wish I had the eyes of a child. And by that I mean, I wish I could look at the world in the same as I did when I was a small boy. I think there is a danger, as we get older, that our curiosity becomes slightly muted or dulled by familiarity.

Mind-blowing, magnified...

 Every time the young female came close to her, she was very hostile towards her. and the daughter was, you know, obviously not understanding what was going on and persisting and trying to make contact... that familiarity that she's so used to.

Why did this Leopard...

 They use a band, basically, a rubber band, like this, only a little smaller. This one was actually around the playing cards I got yesterday -- But it had a certain familiarity to it. And I said, "Well, what exactly is the process?"

Learning from dirty jobs...

 ways and she's feeling that there is a bit of a danger even now for me working with these animals I mean I love them I empathize with them when I understand them and you know familiarity in this case drops my guard that's not good

Deadly Snake Bite! PIPE...

 only a harsh, vacant, gleaming white desert. As if a sandstorm had erased all familiarity. I had to face my mortality and try to understand what made my life worth living,

What makes life worth...

 that we are social animals, but that we are social on a very, very local level. It's just a simple fact of humanity that we cannot have intimate familiarity