Quotes About Experience

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it has become more pleasurable if not easier. I've done other things in life, but writing is by a factor of 10 the most difficult among them. And, of course, you never achieve what you set out to achieve, so you must keep on trying to do better.

Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don't really pay too much attention to it. But it's there, and it's nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, 'How can I use this music in something?'

My favorite songs of all time are songs that take you on a journey and give you pleasurable moments you weren't expecting.

I prefer watching people on a screen, and I've had the most pleasurable people-watching experiences at the Palace Cinema in Balwyn.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

N.Y. is like second home to me. I love that city. I have lived there for a couple of years and it's always a pleasure to go back there.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

One of the pleasures of living in London is the opportunity to do things that are only possible in a city of its size.

A lot of people have compared being an NBA rookie to being a fraternity pledge. It's not really intense like that. It's more like being an intern.

Ingenue parts are plentiful. And once you get old, they'll start hiring you again for character parts. But the middle years are tough.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

I've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.

I've been in football a long time now and I've seen plenty of managers and players come and go. It is part and parcel of the game.