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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.

Though Fire and Rain is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that is what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

I know there are people who do not like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they do not bother me and when they do contact me it is usually on the nicest possible terms.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It is not as if I sit down and play Fire and Rain by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

I have told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you are not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

Anything that is different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it is driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.

What is truth? Truth Does not really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

America is an idea. And it is the solemn responsibility of each temporary president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I have had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they are all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

I do not want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that is under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

You experience the films through the actors, so they are all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

I think it is easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.