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I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that is all I do remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

You are creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it is their experience, not yours. I will never introduce a song and say, now this song is about my broken heart.

You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they will say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

I have had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you do not cut.

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

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I have found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it is a better something.

My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I did not want to do anything that could reflect it.

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I have never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I have always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it was not like, Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school. I had a great high-school experience.

I do not believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy.

We are creating a unique experience. It is starts with how you see the building from a distance.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.