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"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes."

"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology."


"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."


"Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States."


"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."


"Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage."


"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."
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