"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."

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"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Experience, Enthusiasm, Connection, Repentance

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

Experience, Feeling, Obligation, Pleasure

"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Experience, Life, Reading, Understanding

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Experience, Travel, Fool

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

William James, American Philosopher

Experience,

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Experience, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational, Happiness

"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Experience, Risk, Death, Authenticity, Technology

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Experience,

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Experience, Men

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Training, Action, Learning

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"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."

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"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

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"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."

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"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London."

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."

"We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years."

"It's very difficult to marry into another civilization."

"I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema."

"I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet."

"The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing."

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"