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" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "
Alison Bechdel
Age
Character
Someone
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" As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. "
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" I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that. "
Taylor Swift
People
Age
Ahead
" Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. "
Dwight L. Moody
Purpose
Life
Old Age
" Your child probably won't get into the Ivy League or win a sports scholarship. At age 24, he might be back in his childhood bedroom, in debt, after a mediocre college career. Raise him so that, if that happens, it will still have been worth it. "
Pamela Druckerman
Age
Child
Childhood
" If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. "
Norman MacCaig
Single
Play
Sex
" I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70. "
Bill Flores
Work Hard
Work
Retirement
" Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin. "
Joseph Stiglitz
Age
Great
Financial
" I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. "
Alison Bechdel
Myself
Work
Spirit
" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "
John Adams
Exercise
Working
Wish
" Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. "
Golda Meir
Age
Flying
Old Age
" I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time. "
August Wilson
You
Age
Day
" Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pains, insanity, old age, and blindness. Hence, the French expression 'like an apothecary without sugar' meant someone in an utterly hopeless situation. "
Tom Reiss
Situation
Problems
Age
" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Age
You
Someone
" I wasn't one of those kids who get up on the table and dance at a young age, but I always wanted to be an actor. "
Joe Alwyn
Actor
Young
Table
" I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience. "
Jose Andres
Age
Good
Life
" Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. "
Martha Gellhorn
Feel
Age
People
" After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. "
Bette Midler
Own
Age
After
" We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. "
Andy Warhol
Age
Art
Daily
" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "
Douglas Coupland
Mental Illness
Cancer
Age
" Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. "
David Bowie
I Am
Left
Me
" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "
Jeanne Moreau
You
Age
Does
" Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die. "
Martin Seligman
Depression
Character
Age
" I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. "
Elijah Wood
Perception
Change
Help
" Dissents speak to a future age. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Age
Future
Speak
" I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK. "
Betty Wright
Tired
Age
You
" Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. "
Wassily Kandinsky
Culture
Child
Age
" Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "
David Mamet
Old
Always
Age
" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "
Kurt Vonnegut
True
Wake Up
School
" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "
C. S. Lewis
Walking
Strange
Talking