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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
I was broke into my forties.
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.
Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.
War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.
I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.
In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.
I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.
It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.
By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.
Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.
It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.
The forties are very cool and very pastoral. The fifties look like they're pastoral, and then you get a bit more turbulence.
A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy.
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.
I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
My mom got pregnant when she was 15. She dropped out of high school. She died in her forties, but before she died, she went back and finished high school.
When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.
A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.
In my grandfather's day, there was a different perspective on war and men that went into war; it was such a patriotic act to fight for your country in the Forties.
Many people are despairing of the possibility of finding love. And some of the people who are despairing the most are in their thirties and forties and looking just great.
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
I don't know how we're going to have this baby because I'm in my forties and I can't even remember my first son's name. But I'm going to have another baby because I'm feeling good.
In your teens and twenties, death doesn't exist. In your thirties, you glance down the road occasionally. But then in your forties, it becomes a full-time job looking the other way.
I think I would have done very well as a writer in the Forties. I think the last time America was a great country was then or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate.
When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
I've been embracing the red lip and just wearing it every day, not just for going out. And I get so many compliments on it. I love the Julie Hewett Rouge Noir: it's sort of a forties red.
If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.
And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
I love being in my forties. Just getting there and realising that you haven't grown horns or boils on your bum, when all the time it had been this thing looming in the future, is such a relief.
