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I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

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Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

I have a little bit of an out-of-body experience where I enjoy the scenario, and I really do like seeing a crowd turn into a mob, and I do nothing to stop it. People can become really dangerous.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.