- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you go back and listen to old material, there's always the threat of being surprised.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020