We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.
Socially relevant risk is not uncertainty of outcome, or violence of event, or toxicity of substance, or anything of the sort. Rather, it is perceived inability to cope satisfactorily with the world around us.
I feel like I go through an awkward phase almost every day.
I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.
I don't like to go to strange places.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.
When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.
Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings.
If I'm in America, I'm safe. I feel very safe. But if I step outside of America, it will be a very dangerous situation.
What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.
I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.
I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.
I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
When we step into a new terrain, we experience vast uncertainty. Uncertainty is just a situation that you do not know how to handle.
I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.
Kids have awkward moments.
