"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."

Experience, Decision, Fame, Regret

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"Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders."

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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."

Ellen Goodman, American Journalist

Experience, Growth

"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."

Jim Carrey, Canadian Comedian

Experience, Money, Conservative, Houses

"The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Experience, Words

"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"

George Eliot, British Author

Experience, Men, Lying

"In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth."

Martin Feldstein, American Economist

Experience, Growth, Inflation, Now

"There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own."

Letitia Landon, British Poet

Experience,

"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."

Frank Shorter, American Athlete

Experience, Winning, Career, Day

"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."

Clifton Fadiman, American Writer

Experience, Eye, Man

"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Experience, Life, Sleep

"In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time."

Tim Meadows, American Comedian

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"So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped."

Blood, Company, Name, Numbers

"I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses."

People, Pretty

"If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack."

Work, Open, Will

"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

Selling,

"I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there."

Poetry, Feeling, Illusion, Magic

"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."

Religion,

"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."

Faith,

"I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow."

Nature, Artist, Light, Will

"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."

Expectation, Folk, Logic, School

"Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing."

Business, Life, Control, Act