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		It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alison Eastwood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		In 2012, I was over the moon to be there, especially as it was our home Olympics. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I just wanted to take everything in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katarina Johnson-Thompson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Dyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patricia MacLachlan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rainer Werner Fassbinder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Halima Aden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Wriston 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Mcewan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Taylor-Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zaha Hadid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ira Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tao Lin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jay Samit 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John le Carre 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Simone de Beauvoir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a world of difference between the experience of 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing of a body: basic biological obligations – and the intimacy that makes us want to live. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Antonella Gambotto-Burke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alison Eastwood