934 private quotes tagged experience

“I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.” — Cathy Guisewite

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“I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.” — Dominic Monaghan

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“I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul.” — Christopher Eccleston

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“Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.” — Ernie Harwell

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“The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.” — Richard Wright

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“I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.” — Donny Osmond

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“I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.” — Carrie Fisher

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“Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.” — Florence Nightingale

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“I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.” — Tim Robbins

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“I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.” — Mike Myers

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“But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.” — Hugh Grant

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“It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.” — Ann Romney

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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.” — Bessie Coleman

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“The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.” — Jodi Picoult

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“You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.” — Aubrey O'Day

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“When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.” — Al Yankovic

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“To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.” — Vaclav Klaus

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“I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.” — Josh Hutcherson

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“My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.” — Ann Romney

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“When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?” — Charlie Kaufman

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“People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.” — John Hodgman

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“My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.” — Jim Lehrer

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“I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.” — Charlie Kaufman

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“It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.” — Raul Julia

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