I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.
A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.
My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.
Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
