Quotes About Experience

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.

It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

'Ghost City' was actually one of the few instances of non-fiction that I had written, and I felt that I probably said what I wanted. I think it must be different for every author; I haven't done very much of it, and perhaps, in a way, I found it rather painful, which is why I don't really do it very often.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

There's not a day that goes by that I'm not in pain. Multiple joints and things that I experience on a daily basis. It can be very frustrating sometimes and painful, but I'm very blessed.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Dating can be painful, can be great, can be confusing, can be weird, but I don't do it online because I'm not really an online person.

I felt that if I shared the lessons that I learned - both the good ones and the bad ones - that I might make the climb a little less painful for other women.

Seeing myself as female every time I look in the mirror is painful in a way I will never be able to describe.

For me to do interviews is painful. People don't know that. To do an interview is going back in time. And to go back in time, maybe it wasn't all the time that good.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

I have been around for more than 30 years and it has been quite a journey. It had its glorious moments on camera and painful moments off camera.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I wanted to deal with light directly rather than with paint.