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Experience Quotes
"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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"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
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"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
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"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself."
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"It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'"
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"Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience."
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"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."
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"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."
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"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
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"The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment."
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"They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people."
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"Hill Street Blues might have been the first television show that had a memory. One episode after another was part of a cumulative experience shared by the audience."
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"Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience."
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"The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game."
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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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"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."
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"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something."
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"If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle."
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"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."
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"As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore."
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"I would much prefer that they take me as I am, that way the experience is genuine between the both of us."
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"Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing."
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"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."
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"While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration."
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"I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself."
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"It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak."
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"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."
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"In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite."
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"If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful."
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"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night."
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"I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here."
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"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."
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"I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
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"I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience."
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"The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience."
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"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."
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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule."
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"Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it."
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"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves."
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"Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales."
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"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations."
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"With acting, it was really more of a general kind of experience of really just loving being in the theater."
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"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
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"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
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"My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life."
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