I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But at least in my experience you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
Our thoughts have an order not of themselves but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
There should be a sympathy with freedom a desire to give it scope founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience so as much as someone can tell you things you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Where terrorists offer injustice disorder and destruction the United States and its allies stand for freedom fairness equality hope and opportunity.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
In order to get beyond racism we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally we must treat them differently.
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place we'll have to-in order to increase another place I'm willing to do that.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation we shall find manifest examples of premeditation perseverance resolution and consumate artifice in order to effect their purpose.
Environmental degradation overpopulation refugees narcotics terrorism world crime movements and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.
A system of education which would not gratify this disposition in any party is requisite in order to obviate the difficulty and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.