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Experience Quotes
"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements."
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"Playboy was a wonderful experience and a great opportunity for me."
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"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."
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"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."
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"Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real."
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"It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime."
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"As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying."
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"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."
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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
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"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
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"I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players."
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"This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution."
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"I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry."
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"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."
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"I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience."
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"Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally about what was available."
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"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition."
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"There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream."
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"I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time."
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"But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu..."
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"Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something."
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"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."
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"As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear."
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"The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience."
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"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
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"I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength."
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"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence."
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"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
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"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
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"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
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"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."
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"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."
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"There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience."
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"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
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"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience."
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"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
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"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
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"Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous."
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"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."
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"The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy."
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"Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people."
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"Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic."
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"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
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"And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience."
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"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."
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