- Moving
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of those whom we honor on Memorial Day died young. They never had the chance to raise a family, build a career, attend the weddings of their children, or be honored in old age.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don't want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in giving in to old age.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the age of 16, I decided to rebel and become an actress. I wasn't happy with rules and regulations.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
- Dinosaurs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020