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" It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair. "

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John Galsworthy

" As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or 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. "

" 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

" I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself. "

" Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. "

" Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. "

" I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time. "

" 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. "

" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "

Sam Taylor-Johnson

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. "

" 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

" I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. "

" Dissents speak to a future age. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" 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. "

" 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

" Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. "

" True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. "

" 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. "