Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.

I grew up dancing and singing, and I pool together my life experience and relationships and put it into work.

My time in documentaries was very educating, in terms of life experience as well as the filmmaking side of it.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

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.

On my first album some of the songs were written when I was 14 or 15 so your life experience means you change, but my style is similar.

Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.

As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

The only reference in my life is my life, and it's my life experience. It's my environment. It's my community. I've not made that for books.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.

I never really got the chance to scream about some of the painful things. In the book, I look at my whole life experience, at ego and fame, too.

For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.

It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let's let him do that... Let's see where the chips fall.

You grow up and share life experiences. That's one of the best parts of this business. You share how you're mellowing out and your new sense of self.

I just really love hanging out with really old people. They're the best dinner dates you could ever have. All that life experience and understanding.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

Your life experience is unfolding in the precise response to the vibrations that radiate as a result of your thoughts, whether you know it is or not.

When I was doing stand-up, I was about twenty, and I really think that that's a little too young. I didn't have a whole lot of life experience to draw on.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

I have a philosophy, folks, and it's based on my own life. I'm using my own life experiences to philosophize about things in general. It has to do with desire.

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually about 'having a stent put in,' as if they had their tires rotated.

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