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Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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.

Parents of recovered children, and I have met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we are too busy helping other parents to really care.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I do not care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It is just about like the most completely humbling experience that I have ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can not stand up to those principles when you are raising a child, forget it.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums did not enable you to do that. It was not my style.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you are working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

Very often I have known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they had go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and long-form development that filmmakers did not have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like The Sopranos.

Women love working together. That is my experience anyway.