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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: Blown Day Experience Gremlin Having Hugely Mind Off Remember Seeing I Remember

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I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.

~Edgar Wright

Topics: After Because Blank Blank Page Dead Drawer Ever Experience First Found Having Intensely Making Nothing Page Painful Properly Returning Screenplay Then Wrote

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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.

~Edgardo Osorio

Topics: Else Experience Five Got Had Industry Might Same Someone Years

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All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself?

~Edith Stein

Topics: Could Experience Experiences Itself More Our Own Present Than

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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

~Edith Wharton

Topics: Become Counselor Does Experience Life Moral Only Part Personal Personal Experience Real Through Tissue Wisdom

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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.

~Edith Widder

Topics: Back Been Come Directly Dive Down Experience Fireworks First Inadequate Lights Needed Out Saw Share Since Some Task Those Totally Try Turned Way Were Words Would

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Experience by itself is not science.

~Edmund Husserl

Topics: Experience Itself Science

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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Acquiring Better Call Conceived Experience Gaining Good Good Life Involves Life Like Mastery Material May Means Oneself Prospering Rewards Terms Thus Wealth Whether Work

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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

Topics: Adult Betrays Book Boy Case Creepy Enjoyed Etc Even Everyone Experience Gay He His Man Needed Novel Only Really Received Sexual Teacher Think Though Too Whom

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I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

~Edmund White

Topics: About Always Experience Faithful Me My Own Own Seen Telling Telling The Truth Tried Truth Way Writing

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