Quotes About Experience

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

I understand clearly as a freshman in Congress, you don't get to steer the bus.

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

My experience at NXT was quite stellar.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.

I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.

Every time you step into a different cage, you can feel the difference.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

Everything was a lesson learned and a step forward for me.

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.

My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect from an artist.

Honestly, it's terrible, but I don't know if I've ever really read a Stephen King novel.

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.

Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.

From the age of 15 to 50, I'd hardly stepped out of a kitchen. I just wanted to live a little, to spend time with my wife and children. The first time I saw snow was when I was 50, because I'd never had the time before.

Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.

I love performing in front of a live audience and just stepping out in front of ruddy Royal Albert Hall is just something, I can't describe it.