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Also, the more you are not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it is releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It is about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it is worth getting your teeth into.

It is hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I have already bungled it.

I think I have spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and thinking about lyrics was when I started listening to rap I was 11, 12, and started becoming aware of music beyond the familiar.

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.

In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It is like, Wait a second - what happened here? It was a real learning experience. I have paid my dues, I will tell you that.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I am developing a record company. I am learning how to supervise music on a film.

I have never gone to acting school and I never will, so I am learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It Does not seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.