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Experience Quotes
"I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking."
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"One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run crazy and blow at monsters! It was a physical shoot and I enjoyed it."
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"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience."
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"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before."
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"But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc."
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"Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise."
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"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"
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"Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur."
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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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"People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team."
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"It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget."
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"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."
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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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"The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night."
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"Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about."
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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 thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment."
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"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
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"The first few hours in the cell were quite stimulating. I'd never been in a prison cell before and was quite enjoying the experience."
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"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."
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"Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure."
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"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."
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"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
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"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions."
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"What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience."
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"Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world."
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"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved."
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"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."
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"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation."
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"It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else."
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"Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world."
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"Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience."
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"Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer."
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"I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience."
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"I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience."
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"But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball."
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"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."
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"We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive."
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
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"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."
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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
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"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
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"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe."
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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
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