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" Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. "

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" No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. "

Barbara De Angelis

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" I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. "

" The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. "

" By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. "

" You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome. "

" Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel. "

" The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. "

" We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over. "

" Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age. "

" Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. "

" The golden age is before us, not behind us. "

" The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. "

" People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. "

Helen Hayes

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" Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. "

" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "

" It is surprising to notice that even from the earliest age, man finds the greatest satisfaction in feeling independent. The exalting feeling of being sufficient to oneself comes as a revelation. "

" All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself. "

" I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.' "

" There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going. "

" The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC. "

" I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. "

" You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. "

" My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. "

" Age is how we determine how valuable you are. "

" I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged. "

" At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. "

" Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place. "

" I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying. "

" Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. "

" Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. "