- High Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
Age Quotes
On the ages we pass through.
This collection moves from a childhood memory shaped by early pressure over appearance to a university course named for an 18th-century literary period, showing how differently 'age' can be used. For life-stage reflections, browse Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself, but at an age where lots of people are thinking of retiring, so is having up to 20 or 30 engagements a day, and she's brilliant at it - she has always been brilliant with people.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
- Nov 07, 2020
In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.
- Character Roles
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in the golden age of character actors - in an age when actors who have done their time in character roles are frequently asked to carry dark movies and complicated television dramas.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to college in New York. I interned at Vertigo, and then I interned at Marvel working for Chris Claremont. Just to age myself, this was in 2000.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020