#experience

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

#anything #artist #become #create #devour

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?' ↗

— David Mamet

#experience #i #know #life #life experience

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#believe #book #class #class struggle #closed

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#another #beautiful #experience #land #never

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. ↗

— Rudolph A. Marcus

#being #concepts #experience #exposed #love

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. ↗

— Karl Marx

#happy #made #most #people #praises

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#am #audience #audience member #concerned #critic

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened