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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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"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."
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"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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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
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"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."
Party
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
Action
"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
Peace
"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice."
Art
"Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose."
Poetry
"Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him."
Fight
"I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me."
Time
"I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest."
Time
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."
Success
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
Decision-Making
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