Quotes About Experience

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.

I've wrestled on every continent but Antarctica and in every country in the world except for China and the U.S.S.R.

I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.

We moved around a lot when I was kid. I'd lived in three continents before I was 12.

I have been to all continents of the world.

Certain games, I think it's great that they give you a continuing experience.

I don't think of my life as having two marriages; I think of it as a continuum.

I had gone to work for 'Newsweek', left 'Newsweek' and went to work for 'Vanity Fair,' and then went back to 'Newsweek'. I came back to 'SI' as a contract writer.

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

I experienced the G League in two forms: one as an assignment player, and then one of actually being in the G League after I got cut by the Bulls. Obviously, both situations are different. You actually sort of still get treated like an NBA player when you're on assignment. When you're in G League on contract, you're down there for real.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

At 65, most of us still have a lot to give and a lot to contribute.

I am used to controversies.

My pride is the length of time I have worked in the industry without any major controversy.

I was in a convent for a year.

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

Throughout my experience as the Bachelorette, I was shocked at the social media conversations that happened each week while the show aired. No matter what anybody tells you, you can't be prepared for that kind of criticism and opinions. You just can't.

I'm a big 3-D convert.

I used to drive a convertible around L.A. a lot.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.