3 December 2020 Christa McAuliffe The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
3 December 2020 Ian Mckellen Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.
3 December 2020 Davy Jones And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
3 December 2020 Charlie Kaufman Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don’t have to make when you’re writing.
3 December 2020 John Updike Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
3 December 2020 Francis Ford Coppola I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
3 December 2020 Christopher Eccleston I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.
3 December 2020 Andrea Arnold With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what’s going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.
3 December 2020 Mia Wasikowska I’ve had a great experience with pretty much everybody I’ve worked with.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
3 December 2020 Mia Hamm I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
3 December 2020 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
3 December 2020 Cameron Diaz I don’t care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what’s not right is from experience.
3 December 2020 Salma Hayek I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt 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.
3 December 2020 Ernst Mach 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.
3 December 2020 T. D. Jakes I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
3 December 2020 Ayelet Waldman By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought.
3 December 2020 John le Carre A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
3 December 2020 John Polkinghorne Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.
3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on ‘Madden’.
3 December 2020 David Schwimmer 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.
3 December 2020 Julius Erving One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
3 December 2020 Vincent D'Onofrio Acting is not a mystery. There’s nothing that I know that other actors don’t know. We all act, we’re all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
