Quotes About Experience

I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn't one of those is kind of a bummer.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic.

In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.

Every time I work, it's an educational process because I learn by watching other actors. My career is always going to be an ongoing study.

Only a consistent, ongoing, deep experience can make a lasting media brand: one that has a commitment from a core community and the respect of a larger reading public.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.

My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can provide a seamless experience for people, whether they are up the road or on the other side of the world.

No, playing online is an entirely different experience and classical chess events never happen online.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like, two years but were my best friends, and we had a really fun time. And then I lived alone or with a boyfriend. I've never really had a bad roommate situation.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

I had Noelle when I was 32 years old, and she is my only child by birth.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only one way to get it. You're going to actually have to be a reader.

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review it is when the fans bring up comics at shows, and I kind of flip through it and be like, 'Oh, I remember doing this!'

'Spamalot' was a blip! I've never done anything else like that, and yet it's the only time I've ever been nominated for an Olivier award!