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"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
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"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
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"Experience is something you have to go through to tell it details."
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"Many people experience Gethsemane moments."
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"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
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"I was always a self-conscious person."
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"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."
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"I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."
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"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."
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"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me."
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"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."
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"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
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