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But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together.
James Stockdale
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I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.
Dreama Walker
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I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.


Noah Baumbach
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Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.
Julie Roberts
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I used to go around the country performing. I was in my 20s; I had no fear. But then I had a baby, and all of sudden, your life, your world changes; you change.
Jaime Pressly
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I went to see a children's matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called 'The Bad Seed.' It just terrified me.
Robert Englund
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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
Marjane Satrapi
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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
Vince Vaughn
'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
Pete Docter
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I like 'The Fault in Our Stars.' I thought those two guys did a really, really good job. The movie obviously did really, really well.
Jamie Blackley
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
Elvis Costello
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If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
Stephen Covey
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Evil changes everybody!


Vincent D'Onofrio
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
Bruce Dickinson
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
Ray LaMontagne
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After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.
Wallace Shawn
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I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.
Brantley Gilbert
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You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.
Saul Zaentz
I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood
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