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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience Quotes
What years and habits teach you.
This collection uses "experience" to cover both comfort and unease — from finding solace in familiar music, to noticing how wealth and poverty can sit side by side in daily life. For a broader look at personal journeys, see Journey quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep in the lap of a grandmother who had a tattooed number on her arm, who told him stories of the people who disappeared, the relatives she never saw again, as he drifted off with his cheek nestled next to that number.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are American films. They may open the window on the black experience, but they had things to say to everybody. That's why they were so successful.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
America cannot become just a service and financial services economy, and to prevent that, there is no substitute for having people with successful, real-world manufacturing experience in Congress.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1994 I was doing a two-hander with Sean Lock in Edinburgh and there were more people in the cast than the audience. It was pretty grim, quite a chastening experience.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
- Nov 07, 2020
Legislating is a very human experience in which trust and mutual respect play critical roles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020