- Good
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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
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.
- Atomic Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professionally.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Dalgety Bay, but my life did not revolve around the house. I was a teenager there, and these things aren't that important at that age.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.
- Grad
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are the president of the United States of America, you are 70 years of age, and you are tweeting - literally competing with 15- and 17-year-olds - that is a problem.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020