Quotes About Experience

I had to go to England to really learn about American racism in a way that corroborated my reality. That was critical.

I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'

Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available.

I am used to a lot of criticism.

I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love.

I did watch 'Ee Varsham Sakshiga' with fans in the theatre and I saw them enjoying every bit of the movie. The critics would have had their own opinions, though.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

I was German-speaking, and I arrived 10 years old to Croatia, and really wasn't speaking a lot at home with my parents in Croatian, so it was really difficult to write in Croatian. It took me two years after I went back to learn everything again in Croatian.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particularly good, so I didn't just carry on because I was good, but it just really appealed to me.

It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.

I'm someone who takes on information quite well, so there's maybe a path into management. But I see what successful managers have to go through to get to that level - it's a completely different ball game - so I think I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

Indian food has crossed boundaries but we have not been able to tell the world that it is best enjoyed with hands.

I'm not sure if I'll make the Europeans feel bad, but I'll say it like this: The U.S. crowd is even better than the European crowd.

Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.

I love working in front of American crowds.

I've played for a lot of tough crowds.

One of the reasons why you want to play cricket is to play in front of big crowds, and in India, it is the perfect place to do that. The atmosphere here is like no other place in the world. Having experienced it once, you want to keep coming back.

Playing in front of 40,000-plus crowds will be brilliant.