"A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good."
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"I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on."
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"A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen."
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"I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood."
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"The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age."
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"In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."
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"Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian."
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"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."
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"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."
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"Nature is always behind the age"
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"That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow."
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"All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die."
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"Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love"
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"Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use."
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"I had so many adults around me reminding me that I was a kid. I also had a lot of adults saying things to me like, "When I was your age..." and sort of idealizing it. I didn't like that they idealized it."
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"Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then [at age of 13]."
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"I can't even count how many times I did interviews with people and they asked me if I had a boyfriend. Keep in mind that I was, I guess, mild to moderately famous from ages 6 to 13. Of course I didn't have a boyfriend then. I didn't even have a camp boyfriend then."
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"The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses."
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"Age teaches us how to be more aware of other people's feelings."
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"You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it."
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