Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
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.
I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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.
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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.
IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.
