#experience

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. ↗

— Martha Beck

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious and aware of living in a limited world. When you take a conscious part in life and its multitudes of choices, you won't let life happen to you - you will make life happen for you. ↗

— James Van Praagh

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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#audiences #come #comedy #doing #draw

But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. ↗

— Donald Judd

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I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#experience #human #human experience #i #none

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entitles #experience #indispensable #love #love is