The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Many people experience Gethsemane moments.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
So most of my acting experience came in college when I was living away from them. I acted in various independent films, and I got some commercial work and stuff like that.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.