“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”
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“Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.”
“The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.”
“Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”
“I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.”
“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.”
“It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.”
“I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.”
“My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.”
“Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.”
“I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.”
“At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has d--n all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.”
“What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.”
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother.”
“I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.”
“When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.”
“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.”
“I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.”
“I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.”
“Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.”
“This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.”
“At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.”
“There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.”
“Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.”