934 private quotes tagged experience

“My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.” — David Schwimmer

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“When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.” — David Antin

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“My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.” — Alan C-----g

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“You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you.” — Harvey Keitel

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“A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.” — Curt Siodmak

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“It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.” — Emily Mortimer

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“The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.” — Ninon de L'Enclos

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“And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.” — John Abizaid

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“You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.” — Renny Harlin

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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.” — Davy Jones

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“Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.” — Kenneth Branagh

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“So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.” — David Frum

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“I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.” — Celine Dion

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“Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.” — George Will

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“It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.” — Warren Farrell

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“We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.” — Ron Chernow

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“But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.” — Wallace Shawn

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“The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.” — Orson Scott Card

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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.” — Vincent D'Onofrio

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“I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do the best work possible, and to always know my lines and to always be on time and to bring a level to the show in terms of quality that other people will follow.” — Julianna Margulies

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“I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, 'Okay, let's experience that.' You just have to just go with it because it's rare.” — Julianna Margulies

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“For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.” — Darrell Royal

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“Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.” — Brooke Shields

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“Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.” — Bob Packwood

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“I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.” — Rihanna

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