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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
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"You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too."

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist
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"Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as nymphets."

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old."

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Jim Dale Actor, Narrator
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"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

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