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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

~Flannery O'Connor

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Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.

~Flip Wilson

Topics: Along Artists Caliber Classic Clubs Come Different Disappear Experience Get Gone Had Passed Performer Shows Small Time Variety Work

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

~Florence Nightingale

Topics: Almost Europe Experience Large Sympathy Women

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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Become Certainty Confidence Experience Forgotten Idea Later Like Lost Me Mindless Moment My Self Part Remember Self Story Thought Through Will

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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Biography Chance Conventional Details Disappoint Events Experience Had Literary Little Live Sense Someone Those Turn Very Who Will

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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Able Actor Against Better Different Discover Experience Fear Frightening Get Harder Hope Keep Normally Pretty Some Something Survive Tend To Survive Trying Walk Want Ways Work

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Fame allows you a lot of opportunities to experience new things and connect with people. But on the other hand, people's perceptions of you can limit the scope of your relationships with them. You walk both lines.

~Forest Whitaker

Topics: Both Connect Experience Fame Hand Limit Lines Lot New New Things Opportunities Other People Perceptions Relationships Scope Them Things Walk You Your

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It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

~Foster Friess

Topics: Administration Any Experience Few Few People How Obama Obama Administration People Private Private Sector Sad Sector See

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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

~Foster Friess

Topics: Age America Entrepreneurial Experience Grasp Guys Had Hard He Him Indonesia Know Like Me Obama Over Paper President President Obama Route Same Same Age Spirit Think Were I Think

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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

~Fran Lebowitz

Topics: Adult Been Child Company Experience Infinitely Issue Mere Must Preferable Take Term

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