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"The cruelty of nature is you have to work out harder when you get older ... It should be the other way around: Work out hard when you're a kid you should be able to coast when you get older. But unfortunately you have to do more to stay in the same position."
"Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones."
"This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem."
"The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it shows in this trendy business how long a career can last. It shows how you can soar back, regardless of age."
"I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one."
"The best part of aging in this business is losing that obsession about work and being able to spend a little more time with family."
"You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are."
"I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]"
"The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?""
"Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age."
"I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully."
"My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day."
"There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness."
"We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age."
"I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability."
"The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast."
"One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been."
"I have the problems of, I must confess, old age."
"I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online."
"For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?"
