A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it's an incomparable experience.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
