Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.
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.
I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.
If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
It's an odd experience reading interviews with yourself. Interesting, though. Of course, you know that the journalist will have edited, rephrased or even rewritten what you actually said, but you can't help feeling that there's a special kind of trut...
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
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.
All parents experience the same problems.
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
I loved the college experience of studying.
'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.
Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.
