Quotes About Experience

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

I like dates that are really fun as opposed to just getting dinner.

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

What we've demonstrated is there's an immense appetite to travel more authentically and immerse yourself in culture... as opposed to having a commoditised experience.

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

I've never been an MP in government unfortunately and only know what it's like to be in opposition.

I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

I got to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, which is just so amazing. That stage is iconic; it was awesome being on it.

I've played the Opry before.