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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

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It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

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Life is a continuing experience that has ups and downs. We must continue to endure through the hard times so we can be there for the good times. ↗

— Mitchell Leichner

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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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Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic. ↗

— Susan Blackmore

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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. ↗

— James Dean

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I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences. ↗

— Chris Evans

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