Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?'
Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.
I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
My cinema is an extension of myself. A sort of life-testimony of my vital experience, with my few virtues and my numerous limitations.
My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.
I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.