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Experience Quotes
"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience."
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"I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them."
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"It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour."
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"No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book."
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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 came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience."
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"Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors."
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"It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break."
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"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."
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"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."
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"I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience."
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"The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get."
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"It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing."
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"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."
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"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it."
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"A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next."
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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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"The whole experience of working on this movie was so fun, and I had more fun working on that than I've had on anything else. I had more fun working than on my days off."
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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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"I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad."
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"We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached."
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"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
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"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly."
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"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."
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"So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more."
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"The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable."
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"I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience."
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"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."
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"If "Been there, done that isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list."
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"Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging."
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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
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"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
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"You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure."
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"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."
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"At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me."
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"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."
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"People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before."
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"If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience."
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"Not everyone is nice and good to work with or grateful for the experience."
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"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."
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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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"If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience."
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"For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?"
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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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"It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people."
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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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"We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience."
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