All Quotes

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
‐‐ Bill Clegg

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
‐‐ Bill Gates

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
‐‐ Malcolm Bradbury

My experience of test screenings is that you don't know what kind of mood people are going to be in, and sometimes the studios accept what Joe Blo says - and this guy could just be a frustrated filmmaker, or not paying attention.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.
‐‐ Alex Graves

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
‐‐ Douglas Wilder

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience.
‐‐ Steven Weber

My experience tells me, unfortunately, that so many people ask the question about 'The Smiths' reforming without really caring about the answer. They just really want to ask the question.
‐‐ Johnny Marr

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.
‐‐ Mike Mills

My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
‐‐ Jim Messina

My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.
‐‐ Jessy Schram

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.
‐‐ Kat Graham

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

My experience with the Detroit Symphony has been musically very satisfying. They have a wonderful sound, which for me is one of the most important qualities in an orchestra.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.
‐‐ C. Everett Koop

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

My experiences and training back at drama school were very enlightening. I always believe in improving, be it kathak or my acting skills, and would want to experiment more when it comes to work.
‐‐ Jiah Khan

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
‐‐ Russell Simmons

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
‐‐ Ally Sheedy

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.
‐‐ Kim Cattrall

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.
‐‐ Heather Bresch

My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world's biggest Islamic lender by market value.
‐‐ Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi

My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.
‐‐ Marie Curie

My expertise is running businesses.
‐‐ Amit Bhatia

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
‐‐ Merton Miller

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
‐‐ James P. Moran

My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
‐‐ David Bailey

My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East, and so you know that's a grind out game.
‐‐ Shabazz Muhammad

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
‐‐ Edward Albee

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
‐‐ Charles Gwathmey

My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.
‐‐ Scott Pruett

My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
‐‐ Ina Garten

My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
‐‐ Xavier Dolan

My eye is ever on those who love me.
‐‐ Sai Baba

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
‐‐ Geoffrey Rush

My eyebrows could do with a trim.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.
‐‐ Peter Gallagher