Brie Larson Quotes

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and different.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

Something new has the chance to speak to someone immediately. There isn't this expectation of what they're about to hear, so people can be really captivated, really quickly.

If you are seeing something for the first time, one of your first reactions should be fascination.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.