Raw Experience Quotes

Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.

My comedy is unapologetic and fearless. Like, sometimes you'll wind up having condomless sex with someone that you probably shouldn't. I'm interested in sharing that part of myself unapologetically so that other people will hopefully feel better.

Mere analysis, that is the Party line, was … substituted for the raw, emergent movement of life itself. The psychology of human beings was descended not directly from experience but from a set of political theories.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that. That's why I write the way I do.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.

Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches!

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.

We set up a bakery called Bad Boy Bakery, to cook on the inside to sell on the outside. It was huge, because it got them working. I'd give them a certificate to go back in the community with a skill. They could get a job. We set up a little bakery and it's gone crazy. I need to be that raw to do the glossy stuff. I need to get back to that kind of scenario.

All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

There's nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.