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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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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
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"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"I was always a self-conscious person."
Self
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."
Fact
"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."
Career
"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
Politics
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."
Success
"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."
Party
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
Action
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."
Society
"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."
People
"Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit."
Death
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