Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Schilling

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I learned with 'Birdman' that it's liberating when you just lose yourself and go after something that terrifies you. The experience was so good.

Bruce Cockburn

'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.

Marianne Williamson

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.

Sakshi Tanwar

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

Dennis Quaid

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

Jane Smiley

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

Vanessa Williams

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Stephan James

I've had some experience in track and field in school, but I did have to train to be able to play Jesse Owens - to be a runner, to be an Olympian.

Lloyd Blankfein

In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I'd make it to the Supreme Court. That didn't work out the way I planned.

Noah Hathaway

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

Neil Cross

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

We don't have a lot of seniors, our guys don't have a lot of varsity experience and these are the kind of growing pains you go through with younger players,

We didn't play up to our potential in Hawaii. But, it was a good learning experience for our veteran team. Now they are more focused.

Sadie Jones

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Allen Tate

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

A. R. Ammons

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Rick Atkinson

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

Skylar Grey

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

I got a lot of incredible experience at 'Friends.' I was there when it was the No. 1 show in the country. And I was a very small part of that.

Adrienne Rich

Experience is always larger than language.

Abraham Maslow

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction...

You hear these horrible stories about the FBI just doing all these nasty things to people. And you know what? In my case, I didn't experience any of that, probably because the way I treated them. I was like, 'Okay, what do you want to know?' So I kept going back to their offices on a regular basis.

Gabriel Byrne

Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

Emil Zatopek

We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

Edmund White

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

In Haiti, it - people seemed - in my experience in Haiti, people are so open to photographs and journalism. And there doesn't seem to be the same sort of restrictions or wariness about the press that you would experience in Washington, for instance, on many levels.

Christian Siriano

I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.

Lee Smith

I think what happens to young writers is that they use up every life experience that they have had up to that point for their first novel. Then you have to come up with something for the second novel, but you really don't have anything to say.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five fruitless years of auditioning for voiceovers where I did variations on tacos and Latin accents, and my first screen role was as a bellhop on 'The Sopranos.'

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I try to think of it not as writer's block, but a time where you just need to live life and experience things so you have something to write about.

John Sculley

The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.