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When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)
Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.
That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.
For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also.
After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.
I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.
I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it's just like, Why? Why do that?
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.
Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.
There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.
We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction
I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly
Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
The world will teach our children if we do not, and children are capable of learning all the world will teach them at a very young age.
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.
We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
In the Modern Age, there are still those who refuse to contradict a single word of the Bible, even though the Bible contradicts itself.
From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.
You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.
Papanicolaou published for 15 years before anyone would listen to him, but now you find (the) ACS extolling the virtue of the Pap test.
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.