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I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
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While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
I feel like it's definitely been an up and down journey, there have been a lot of downs with injuries and so… — Emile Smith Rowe Copy Share Image
It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I've been a professional since I was a 17-year-old, over 200 league games from Conference all the way up to the Premier… — Jordan Pickford Copy Share Image
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My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
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Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and… — Bryan Callen Copy Share Image
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Through experience we learn to grow, in growing we learn to give, in giving we learn to love and in loving we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary,… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies',… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
I'm a good listener, and I take into consideration everything people tell me, but at the same time, I believe my eyes… — Patrick Vieira Copy Share Image
I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little… — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
At Warby Parker, we moved our focus to promotion only after we'd spent time creating our product, a user-friendly website, and an… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image