“I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.”
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“You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.”
“There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.”
“One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.”
“History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.”
“A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.”
“I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.”
“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.”
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.”
“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.”
“Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.”
“A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.”
“I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.”
“An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.”
“Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.”
“I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.”
“Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.”
“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.”
“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
“And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.”
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
“Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.”