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I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.

I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

All human beings are the same. In the United States, people come from all over the world, all races, all backgrounds. And they're all doing what they want, many scoring huge successes. When I saw that, I became more open. It freed my soul.