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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. S

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. – David Ogilvy

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Good copy cant be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. Youve got to believe in the product. – David Ogilvy

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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. – David Ogilvy

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You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination – at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent. – Renny Harlin

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. – Francis Bacon

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Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something thats everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something Ive been hoping for throughout my career. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching We are all one. – Neale Donald Walsch

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