Famous Quotes: Old

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.
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There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
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I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
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I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
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I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.
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I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
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I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
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I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.
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It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
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Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
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