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Experience Quotes


"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."



"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."


"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience."


"I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right."


"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music."



"I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up."


"So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience."



"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."


"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."



"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."


"The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."


"The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter."


"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."


"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."


"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."


"Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary."



"You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it."


"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."


"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.'"


"Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together."


"No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience."



"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."


"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."



"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."



"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."


"This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience."



"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."


"The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound."


"I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up."


"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."



"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."


"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."


"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience."


"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."


"The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is."


"In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite."


"People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them."



"I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish."



"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."



"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."


"But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us."


"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."


"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."


"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."


"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it."



"Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes."


"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
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