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“I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.”— Ricky Williams
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“The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.”— Daisaku Ikeda
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“All experience is subjective.”— Gregory Bateson
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“I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.”— Bryan Cranston
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“Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.”— Orlando Bloom
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“We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.”— George Saunders
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“It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.”— Theresa May
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“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.”— Ellen Glasgow
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“No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?”— Jeffrey Kluger
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“You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.”— Jack Nicklaus
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“You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.”— Fiona Apple
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“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”— Ellen Glasgow
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“I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.”— Tim Roth
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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 d--n exposed.”— Elia Kazan
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“I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.”— Christopher Meloni
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“As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.”— Rachel Weisz
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“I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.”— Gwyneth Paltrow
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“I learn from experience.”— Alan Dershowitz
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“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.”— John le Carre
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“The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.”— Gary Gygax
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“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”— Jonathan Swift
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“There's no wrong way to experience a film.”— Vera Farmiga
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“If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.”— Marion Cotillard
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“I think being a parent is the most challenging thing you do. That's why we're here. It's at the heart of what it is to be a human being. It's the ultimate experience because it questions everything about who you are. But it's difficult.”— Michael Sheen
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“It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.”— Serena Williams