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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
– Dana Plato
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I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.
– Jonah Hill
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I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
– Louis C. K.
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I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
– Elizabeth Edwards
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I've had a lot of experience in independent film, and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks, and where you cut and what you don't cut.
– Ethan Hawke
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I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.
– Mia Wasikowska
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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've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
– Maria Sharapova
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I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.
– Christina Ricci
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I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
– Trey Anastasio
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I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
– Laurel Clark
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I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.
– Eric Bana
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I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.
– Harry Connick, Jr.
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I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.
– Edward Norton
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I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
– Jennifer Aniston
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I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
– Ang Lee
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I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
– Dave Brubeck
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I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.
– Werner Herzog
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I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
– John Polkinghorne
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I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
– Sherman Alexie
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I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
– John Wooden
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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'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.
– Maurice Sendak
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I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
– Jason Reitman
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I write out of my intellectual experience.
– Tom Stoppard
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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 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 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 damn exposed.
– Elia Kazan
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
– Daniel Day Lewis
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
– Oliver Stone
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I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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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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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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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
– Peter De Vries
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I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been.
– Dennis Franz
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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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I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.
– Javier Bardem
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
– Jane Smiley
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
– Haile Gebrselassie
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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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I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.
– Carrie Underwood
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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.
– Scott Baio
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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.
– Elisabeth Shue
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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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I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
– Jane Campion
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
– Rainn Wilson
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I think we are a product of all our experiences.
– Sanford I. Weill
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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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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
– Barbara Kingsolver
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I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.
– Josh Radnor
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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.
– Shelley Winters
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
– Dave Eggers
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I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
– Nicki Minaj
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I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
– Liev Schreiber
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I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
– Sophia Bush
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
– P. J. O'Rourke
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I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
– Kristin Scott Thomas
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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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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.
– Dee Dee Myers
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I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
– Charlie Kaufman
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
– Oliver Stone
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
– Laura Linney
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
– Lou Holtz
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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
– Ang Lee
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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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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
– David O. Russell
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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience what things are funny and not.
– Keenen Ivory Wayans
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I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
– Sara Blakely
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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
– Eric Clapton
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I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
– Jennifer Lopez
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I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
– Salma Hayek
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I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
– Stanislav Grof
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I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
– T. D. Jakes
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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
– Martha Plimpton
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
– Lady Gaga
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I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
– Marc Andreessen
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I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!
– Chris O'Dowd
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I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
– Lawrence Kasdan
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I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.
– Selena Gomez
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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
– Queen Latifah
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I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
– Keanu Reeves
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I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
– George Strait
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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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I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
– Henning Mankell
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
– Gabrielle Union
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
– Ziggy Marley
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I learn from experience.
– Alan Dershowitz
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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
– James Taylor
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I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.
– Lil Wayne
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I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.
– Joyce Meyer
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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school.
– Brittany Snow
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
– Daniel Craig
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I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.
– Brooke Burke
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
– Danica Patrick
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I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
– Jim Carrey
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I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
– Diane Kruger
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I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.
– Joaquin Phoenix
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
– Harrison Ford
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I have such happy memories of performing in a choir and I don't think I'd have got where I am today without all that experience. So my advice to young singers is to either join your school or church's choir or find one in your local area. Choral music at any level teaches you so much about musicianship and blending your voice.
– Katherine Jenkins
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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
– Harrison Ford
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