“Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.”
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“I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.”
“I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face.”
“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.”
“It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.”
“I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.”
“I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.”
“Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.”
“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”
“When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.”
“Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.”
“My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.”
“I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.”
“I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.”
“You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
“My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.”
“And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.”
“Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.”
“In 1981, at age 31, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.”
“The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.”
“Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.”
“I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.”
“There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.”
“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”