- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Quotes
Old age, old habits, and old traditions worth keeping.
This set uses 'old' loosely, from feeling worn down by constant criticism in a creative career to impatience with distractions that don't matter anymore. For quotes centered on the number itself, see Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably about 10 years old when I said to Mom, 'I'd really like to pursue a career in front of the camera.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was practically born in Cameroon; my family moved there when I was two weeks old.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.
- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you've played in a place and you get a win against your old team, it feels good.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
- Flew
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was almost two years old, my grandmother flew from Hongcheon, South Korea, to Flushing, Queens, to take care of me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 10 years old I started being into church and being around the church. I started doing poetry - I was doing all clean poetry, totally clean.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I'd ever tried.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the average person, 98 percent of those who fought in the Civil War, they did not own slaves. They were simply answering the call, and in this case many, many young men - 17, 18 years old - coming in to defend what they saw as a federal invasion of Virginia, and they fought honorably.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020