- Maybe
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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
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020