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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
– George Santayana
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
– Sally Ride
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The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.
– Elliot Richardson
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The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
– Alfred Adler
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The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
– Ang Lee
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The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
– David Cameron
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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
– John Dewey
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The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
– Lorin Maazel
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
– Ally Condie
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
– Max Frisch
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Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
– Rene Redzepi
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
– K. D. Lang
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Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
– Giorgio Napolitano
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Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
– Bob Hayes
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Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
– Loretta Lynn
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Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel.
– Kiran Ahluwalia
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Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
– Dita Von Teese
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
– Uma Thurman
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So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.
– Max Greenfield
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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience.
– James Iha
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So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
– Diana Krall
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So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
– Richard Dean Anderson
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
– George Henry Lewes
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Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
– Thomas Perry
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Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.
– Nigel Mansell
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Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
– Roy Romer
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Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
– Jon Porter
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
– Karl Shapiro
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
– John Drinkwater
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
– Laura Riding
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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
– Toi Derricotte
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Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
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People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
– Carol Moseley Braun
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
– Andrew Cohen
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Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
– Tony Visconti
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Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
– Diane Kruger
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Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
– Elizabeth Moss
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Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.
– Booboo Stewart
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Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.
– Jeff Healey
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No, Arrested Development was such an amazing experience in every way, and you know it was very unique in that it was a show that received a lot of critical acclaim, and yet we didn't ever achieve the ratings that we wanted.
– Will Arnett
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No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
– Jonathan Swift
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My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.
– Mike Leigh
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My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
– Wil Wheaton
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
– Natan Sharansky
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My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
– Emmitt Smith
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My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.
– Alexa Vega
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My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.
– Eric Stoltz
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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.
– Lois Capps
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
– Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
– Rodrigo Rato
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Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
– Joyce Maynard
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Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
– Melanie Brown
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
– W. Clement Stone
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
– Boris Kodjoe
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
– Roger Ascham
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Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
– Max Roach
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Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.
– Roman Coppola
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It's very different than it use to be. I think everybody has a lot more experience in how to be in a relationship - whether it's a marriage or a significant other or a business or a friend.
– Kathy Valentine
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It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
– Kate Bosworth
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It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
– Jodie Foster
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
– Aaron Neville
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
– Bernadette Peters
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It was an amazing experience to work with Michael Jackson, who is a legend.
– Mario Vazquez
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It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.
– Lukas Haas
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It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
– Julia Ormond
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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
– Les Brown
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
– Muhammad Iqbal
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It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.
– Ezra Miller
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
– Vaclav Havel
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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
– John Charles Polanyi
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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
– Roger Ascham
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.
– Renata Adler
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It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it. It was such an incredible honor to be asked, and I am so proud of what we and the Alexander McQueen team have created.
– Sarah Burton
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
– Stanislav Grof
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In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
– Phil Harris
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In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
– Nicolas Malebranche
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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
– Chris O'Donnell
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In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
– Linda Ronstadt
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
– Edmund White
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In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.
– Koichi Tanaka
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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.
– Charles E. Wilson
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In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
– Michael Mandelbaum
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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
– Nancy Banks Smith
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If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.
– Robert Wyatt
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If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
– Lena Dunham
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If you go to Sundance, the experience that I've had there as a viewer is... there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule.
– Tim Heidecker
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If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
– Robert M. Gates
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
– Roger Ebert
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
– Zoe Saldana
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I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
– Louise Mensch
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
– Felicity Jones
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I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
– Norman Jewison
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I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.
– Krysten Ritter
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I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.
– Christina Hendricks
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I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
– Hector Elizondo
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