“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”
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“I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.”
“You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.”
“There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.”
“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”
“I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.”
“From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.”
“I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.”
“I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.”
“When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.”
“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.”
“My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.”
“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.”
“I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.”
“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.”
“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.”
“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
“When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.”
“For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.”
“I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.”
“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.”
“I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.”
“More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.”
“I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.”