Quotes About Experience

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s. My wife knows everything about music, and I try and get her to educate me, but it's just not part of my DNA.

There is a difference between being educated and academics.

Here's the thing: I consider myself pretty well - for somebody that didn't go to high school, pretty well educated.

I feel like the older I get the more I have to talk about, the more educated I am, the more I learn everyday.

Everything is educational.

Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school.

Working with a great actor is really educational.

I hate the word educational! I mean, 'Downton Abbey' is educational in that you come away from it knowing so much more about that period than when the show started, but you don't come away thinking it was educational.

I've been learning how to soft-scramble eggs. And once you've had an amazing soft-scrambled egg, you cannot go back. It takes a little bit more work, but they're really great.

I don't like eggs because I couldn't get used to it after not growing up with them.

My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

I've been on stage since I was eight.

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player.

I love talking with elderly people.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

I've not had a quiet morning since I had my eldest when I was 17.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.