Quotes About Experience

I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

I come from a long line of teachers. Not only did I not go into the family business; I had an aborted law career and I played in bands. 'Disco Pigs' was my first professional acting experience.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

Every year my family would pile into the car for our vacation and drive 80 trillion miles just to prove we couldn't get along in any setting.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.

The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel.

As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.