Quotes About Experience

I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.

I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.

I spent my life behind bars, and what people don't know is getting out of prison is really nerve-racking - you're not used to society; you're not used to the world going by so fast - so to step on that lot was quite overwhelming.

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I've come out and thought, 'I've only served eight weeks; I can't really write a concept album about jail.'

I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.

I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went through.

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

People just don't know what civilian prisoners of war are.

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence.

I know prisons from the inside.

I lived in a kind of a middle class home, and I didn't really have a lot of experience with the justice system or prisons or really being aware of that world.

There are certain things that should remain forever pristine in your memory, and that's how I look at Hanauma.

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to continue with it.

The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are the boss; you set the pace and rhythm of your reading. In the movie house, you can't do that.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

In my case, I've always been interested in law enforcement. I've always dabbled in law enforcement in between gigs, quite honestly. Back before things really began to pop off for me, I would work in private security for companies and stuff.

Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.