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Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women. — Amy Heckerling
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the… — Steven Chu
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a… — John Updike
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel… — Gloria Steinem
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself. — Maurice Chevalier
Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to… — Margaret Mead
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children… — Margaret Mead
Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that… — Hillary Clinton
I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more,… — Loren Eiseley
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's… — Steven Moffat
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it. — A. S. Byatt
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity. — George Santayana
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy… — Tracy Chapman
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. — Tom Petty
How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies. — Blaise Pascal
When you're older you want to learn from other people. — Ray Bradbury
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that. — Harrison Ford
My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them. — Harrison Ford
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where… — Chris Van Allsburg
I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick… — Fred Couples

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