Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live. Bill Burr desertdriveexperience Change image and share on social
I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually. Ira Glass axisbookbrown share on social
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. Jim Beaver adamautismcancer share on social
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions. Ulrich Beck attackbackgroundexperience share on social
You have to think about why you're asking an audience to come to the theater. It's not that they should come because it's good for them, because it's the vegetables that they should eat and the culture shot that they should get... It's about experience and building community and catalyzing dialogue and bringing people together. Diane Paulus audiencebringbuild share on social
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience. David Levering Lewis alfredamericanbiography share on social
My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director. Daniel Radcliffe actoragentcast Change image and share on social
My grandparents went through a bad experience themselves; they invested money in a church and got burned - the pastor had his own agenda - and my grandfather lost interest in the church after that. That was when I had the option to not go. 'Grandpa ain't going; I'm gonna stay with Grandpa.' Curtis Jackson agendumbadburn share on social
Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse. Tim Cope experiencegraduallyhorse Change image and share on social
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. Isadora Duncan endexperiencehighly Change image and share on social