Quotes About Experience

I am no expert on parenting.

I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.

I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'

I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

Parenting is different for everybody.

I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better.

I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.

I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

In America, kids would go to college and get out and buy a second-hand car and go across the country and discover America. I never did that; I went from New York to Paris, and New York was my America.

Any time an English band came to Paris we went to the concert. All the French crowds were really bad and really blase. We were the only ones wanting to have fun.

I was in Paris for nine years, starting in '98. One of the great things when I was first there were these wonderful CD collections, selling for almost nothing. For ten euros, you'd get three CDs of all the Gershwin songs.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

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.

I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.