934 private quotes tagged experience

“There's no experience like on-the-job training.”— Hank Azaria

“I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.”— Gabrielle Union

“There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?”— Jeffrey Kluger

“Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.”— Joyce Carol Oates

“I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.”— Michael Sheen

“If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.”— Imran Khan

“Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.”— Michael Sheen

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”— Eudora Welty

“Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.”— Dave Eggers

“The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.”— Isabel Allende

“I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.”— Jane Smiley

“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.”— Lucy Powell

“None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.”— Dorothy L. Sayers

“That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.”— Liev Schreiber

“Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.”— Damien Hirst

“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.”— Laurieann Gibson

“It's wonderful to be in love. And it's definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But it's OK if you don't find him and you're 24. You can find it someday.”— Leighton Meester

“My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.”— Jane Pauley

“There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.”— Charles Ives

“Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.”— Damian Lewis

“I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.”— Jonah Hill

“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”— Walter Benjamin

“Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.”— Beth Ditto

“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”— Jane Smiley

“I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.”— Harrison Ford