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For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.
Karyn Kusama
Me
Grief
Better
Path
Pain
Worse
Kind
Would
Would-Be
Embrace
Take
Had
Feel
Like
Sorrow
Question
Personal
Personal Experiences
Different
Experiences
Decided
Transformative
Really
Different Path
I'm a mad thinker in general. I think about everything, all the time. Especially when I write music, a lot of the influences come from personal experiences or from being on the outside looking in, being that person who witnessed things that stuck with me throughout my life.
Adam Hicks
Life
Music
Time
Me
My Life
Looking
Think
Everything
Mad
About
General
Stuck
Throughout
Write
Outside
Come
Witnessed
Lot
Person
Personal
Personal Experiences
Being
Experiences
Influences
Who
Things
Thinker
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
Antony Beevor
Love
You
Half
Out
Archives
Poignant
Excellent
Days
Come
Accounts
Personal
Personal Experiences
Just
Experiences
Descriptions
Dozen
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
Curtis Sittenfeld
Me
You
People
Gift
Inside
Point
Know
Go
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Really
Novel
Lives
Deeply
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls or anything. Just emotions.
Harry Styles
You
Writing
Emotions
Impossible
Girl
Think
Draw
Songs
Personal
Personal Experiences
Just
Experiences
Anything
Whether
Traveling
I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.
James Bay
Me
You
People
Say
About
Write
Lookout
Sort
Around
Antenna
Up
Personal
Personal Experiences
Just
Experiences
Happened
Keep
Things
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.
Jamie Johnson
People
Wealth
Think
Guarded
Something
Obviously
Very
Personal
Personal Experiences
Often
Where
Want
Experiences
Regarding
Describe
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded. They're very worried about how people are going to react to what they say.
Jamie Johnson
People
Wealth
Think
Guarded
Worried
Say
About
Something
React
Obviously
How
Very
Personal
Personal Experiences
Going
Often
Where
Want
Experiences
Regarding
Describe
They Say
My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing.
Jean Craighead George
Writing
Research
Thinking
Kids
Writing Process
Mix
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Dishes
Process
While
Then
Washing
Raising
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Jeffery Deaver
Life
Own
Relationships
Draw
All Writers
My Own
Tend
Writers
Day-To-Day
Day-To-Day Life
Course
Personal
Personal Experiences
Human
Experiences
Stories
Separate
Human Relationships
Describing
Keep
Largely
I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.
Jessica Ennis-Hill
Love
Events
Kids
Part
Sharing
Campaigns
Personal
Personal Experiences
Just
Being
Experiences
Working
When I'm depressed is when I'm not interested in writing anything, whereas some people, I think, are spurred to creativity through their personal experiences and through depression. And for me, it's a very low place, and it's not fruitful.
Julia Holter
Depression
Me
Creativity
People
Writing
Some People
Think
Some
Through
Spurred
Very
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Whereas
Anything
Fruitful
Not Interested
Place
Interested
Depressed
Low
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
Kate Voegele
Time
Writing
First
Living
TV
Tried
TV Set
Promoting
Record
About
Take
Tour
Tour Bus
Songs
Written
Road
First Time
Personal
Personal Experiences
Being
Experiences
While
Bus
Them
Elevate
Second
Universal
Album
Set
I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
Kumail Nanjiani
You
Business
People
Comedy
Think
Other
Taking
Know
Making
Lot
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Them
Your
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.
Mary Pope Osborne
Old
Own
Research
Imagination
My Own
Ideas
Get
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Stories
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
Melissa Etheridge
Song
Songwriter
Put
Am
Get
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.
Pixie Lott
Best
You
Song
Think
Emotion
Put
Stuff
Real
Real Emotion
Get
Personal
Personal Experiences
Afraid
Experiences
Anyway
Them
Use
My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.
Rebecca Ferguson
People
First
Relate
Through
Been
Lot
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Wanted
Album
I share my personal experiences of what is right according to me in a particular situation.
Rithvik Dhanjani
Me
Situation
Share
Particular
According
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Right
The one thing that I know from the personal experiences that I've had with hackers and from people in tech who are brilliant at this thing, is there's a lot of angst.
Sam Esmail
People
Brilliant
One Thing
Angst
Hackers
Had
Know
Lot
Personal
Personal Experiences
The One Thing
Experiences
Who
Tech
Thing
I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.
Tedros Adhanom
Life
Work
Health
Speak
My Life
Young
Field
Impact
About
Had
Because
Malaria
Officer
Personal
Personal Experiences
Often
Experiences
Public
Public Health
Profound
Profound Impact
I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.
Tom Brady
You
Own
Think
Someone
Because
Dealing
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Public
Your
Based
Things
I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.
Tom King
Hope
Myself
You
Try
Think
Too
Characters
Find
Write
Writer
Push
Because
Odd
Close
Get
Personal
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Little
Might
Harder
Universal
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Will Hobbs
Home
Me
Natural
Mountains
Own
Corners
Seven
Draw
Has-Been
My Own
Area
Take
Rivers
Since
Know
Well
Been
Personal
Southwest
Personal Experiences
Experiences
Place
Which
Canyon
Novels
Four
Here
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