Quotes About Experience

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.

I think I was about seven years old, and I remember I was at Moffat Road Baptist Church, where I grew up with all my friends and family and probably didn't understand nearly enough, but I knew enough to understand I wanted to be saved and wanted Jesus to be Lord of my life. What an awesome experience.

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

We've been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.

Right before 'Nebraska,' I went to Ireland to do this little movie called 'Run & Jump.' It was so far away from home, I felt a real safety to explore a different kind of role. I loved how it turned out.

I was born in Japan, and then we went to Korea, and I was raised in Nebraska.

I finished high school and studied at the University of Nebraska in the school of journalism, which really turned me onto journalism. I never finished, but the very little that I did learn in two-and-a-half-years prepared me for a career in legitimate journalism, which included WWE, AWA, WCW, and everything in-between.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make me cry or make me laugh.

You always get that buzz, that feeling of shivers down the back of your neck every time you walk out at Old Trafford or anywhere.

Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

Needless to say, nobody is born an avid gamer.