Quotes About Experience

I'm a multi-racial person - I'm black and white - and growing up in North Carolina, I've dealt with a lot of racism. Growing up as a kid, I've seen it. I've been through it in many forms and fashions.

Yeah, I'm from North Carolina, but grew up in Eastern Europe, and became a woman in London.

I'm from all over the Northeast.

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.

I would like to go to Iceland to see the northern lights.

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I grew up in northern Nigeria.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

Dragged out of your bed at the age of seven, my mother screaming, six kids under the age of 12. I'm not equating my experience with the people who lived in Northern Ireland. But my dad was always out and about late at night, and I could not go to sleep until I knew he was in.

I did a lot of musicals when I was younger. And then I went to Northwestern University, and I did more musicals. I went on to do more work in Chicago, and then while I was in college, I got flown out to Los Angeles to do a screen test for 'Back to the Future.' When I got to Los Angeles, I was like, 'Hmmm, this is different.'

I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

In some ways, I feel like I've always dabbled in nostalgia. It's just what I do; it comes naturally.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

It's nice to have been around long enough to be a part of people's lives. A lot of people who come to my show are real nostalgic for the '80s.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

I'm not a nostalgic person.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

I think, when you survive any intense experience, people try to moralize you; a lot of people just try to raise you high, and it's so not fair to you and to everybody else.