"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."

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"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."

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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Learning, Growth, Life

"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Adventure, Memory, Choice, Risk

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Experience, Pain, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Read, Book, Write, Life

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Work, Life, Memory

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Sensation, Contrast, Enjoyment

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

Experience, Truth, Reality, Fear, Today

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Experience, Question, Memory, Pain

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Experience, Curiosity, Adventure, Risk, Reality

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Experience, Age, Insight, Wisdom

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"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."

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"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."

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"However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable."

Career, Celebrity

"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."

Imagination, Being

"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."

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"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."

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"But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it."

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"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."

Trees, Unworthy

"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."

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