#experience

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue. ↗

— Ron Moody

#experience #fagin #portrayal

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#age

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#art

I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had been working on a novel. The same thing happened with the fourth. In fact, I did not have the energy to finish them. Now I know why: The effort involved in writing a short story is as intense as beginning a novel, where everything must be defined in the first paragraph: structure, tone, style, rhythm, length, and sometimes even the personality of a character. All the rest is the pleasure of writing, the most intimate, solitary pleasure one can imagine, and if the rest of one's life is not spent correcting the novel, it is because the same iron rigor needed to begin the book is required to end it. But a story has no beginning, no end: Either it works or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, my own experience, and the experience of others, shows that most of the time it is better for one's health to start again in another direction, or toss the story in the wastebasket. Someone, I don't remember who, made the point with this comforting phrase: "Good writers are appreciated more for what they tear up than for what they publish. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#experience

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#bases #because #character #did #emotional

The eraser ↗

— James Patterson

#experience

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough ↗

— Carlos Luiz Zafon

#experience #wisdom #experience

I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#experience #humour #knowledge #smell #experience

The daily circumstances of life will afford us opportunities enough of glorifying God in trust, without our waiting for any extraordinary calls upon faith, our faith. Let us remember that the extraordinary circumstances of life are but few; that much of life may slip past without their occurrence; and that if we be not faithful and trusting in that which is little, we are not likely to be so in that which is great... Let our trust be reared in the humble nursery of our own daily experience, with its ever recurring little wants and trials, and sorrows; and then, when need be, it will come forth, to do such great things as are required of it. ↗

— Philip Bennett Power

#faithfulness #experience

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#experience #good #jail #kind #me