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Experience Quotes
"And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right."
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"But theatre is always a difficult experience."
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"Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden."
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"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself."
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"What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level."
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"I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn."
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"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
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"The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience."
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"I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help."
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"Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure."
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"England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America."
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"We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by."
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"There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway."
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"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word."
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"I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people."
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"It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me."
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"It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone."
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"But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment."
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"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
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"At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way."
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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
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"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
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"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
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"A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience."
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
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"I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience."
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"Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience."
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"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture."
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"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."
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"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
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"Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line - that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen - that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach."
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"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
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"I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly."
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"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them."
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"The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth."
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"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains."
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"My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue."
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"Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama."
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"Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him."
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"Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation."
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"As she'd walked along this street, a million stars stretched across an indigo canvas, holding all the freedom she'd yearned for every night."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
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"In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience."
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