- Men
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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.
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- Driving
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Driving while black' was taught to me at a young age.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had become obsessed with the control-freak aspect of photography and with the rising importance of the image in our social media age it ended up working.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a daughter, Catherine, aged 30. I have a 9-year-old son, Nathaniel, a 7-year-old son, Ridley, and a 6-year-old daughter, Truma. I'm 68. The age gap between the younger kids and me is not something I think about much because I feel physically about like I did when I was 40, or at least, I think I do.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- Nov 07, 2020
A woman has the age she deserves.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a very small country town, so I was exposed to horses at quite a young age, but I used to cry and run; they seemed so powerful and so unpredictable.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020