#familia

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock. ↗

— Chad Smith

#chili #drummer #end #familiar #finished

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#appeal #away #band #because #breeds

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar. ↗

— John Hench

#communication #everything #familiar #images #into

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember. ↗

— Dick York

#arms #floor #go #had #i

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation. ↗

— Michael York

#also #appealing #creation #did #extent

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#distant #familiar #foreign #home #hospitality