Category

Experience

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever youre at and youll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it. – Josh Radnor

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didnt go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking. – Josh Radnor

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, youll get it done! – Rachael Ray

I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, Ive got so many followers that Im not able to see them that much. Ill see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good. – Nicki Minaj

I think were the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. Its not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. – Rainn Wilson

I feel that between my experience and my mothers, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. – Cynthia Nixon

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody whos kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. – Andrew Greeley

I read Freuds Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. – Stanislav Grof

I mean, Im an uncle of seven or eight, and I dont mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have! – Chris ODowd

When youre a soul singer, Im singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason, that seems to get em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but thats never been my experience. – Mayer Hawthorne

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized womens rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do. – Ingrid Newkirk

People only talk about what a joyous experience it is, but there is terror: Your life, as you know it, is over. Its over the day that child is born. Its over, and something completely new starts. – Bill Murray

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think thats ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience. – Michael Haneke

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, its impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you cant just go, Hey, theres a great movie – were not going to show you anything from it but trust us! – Paul Feig

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after Bad Girls, nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with Off The Wall. – Rob Sheffield

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character youre playing through your own experience – so were all different. – Ian Mckellen

Rhetoric and dialectics cant change what I have learned from observation and experience. – Paul Getty

Im a very professional man. Im not out for the experience of adventure. – Werner Herzog

I dont think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. – Carlos Fuentes

Capital isnt that important in business. Experience isnt that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. – Harvey S. Firestone