Quotes About Experience

I was working as a print journalist before I gave broadcasting a go, and spent years behind the camera in production while building up on-screen credits, but I know so many others with totally different experiences.

'Bigg Boss' was the first time I was exposed to a situation where I had to only speak in Hindi. Prior to that, I was learning but never practising.

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

I'd never done television prior to 'Boardwalk.'

Before I left to go to college, I was living in Orange County, Anaheim Hills. And prior to that, I was in Long Beach.

Funny enough, apart from when I was at school, I've always gone out with younger men - I was even married briefly to one prior to Angus.

When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time is more precious to me now. I've got my priorities.

I didn't necessarily grow up with country being my first priority as a music listener. I grew up listening to classic rock and Christian music.

Music was never a priority for me, and I seriously do not know how I got so big.

I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

I shopped at Harrods and Louis Vuitton, as they were top on my priority list. And that's when a friendly shopkeeper told me that I could get mugged as my luxury bags were screaming for attention. And he gave me garbage bags to cover them. So here I was walking around in London with garbage bags in my hand.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

Prison make you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

A lot of times, people say, 'You're so much like Loretta or Tammy Wynette.' But I feel kind of like one of the men. I'm like David Allan Coe. I've been to prison, man!

I got mail from a prison once.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

I didn't have any shrimp the whole time I was in prison.

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.