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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill on age

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Clarence Day on age

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch on age

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch on age

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.
Liz Phair on age

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
Liz Phair on age

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
Charlie Kaufman on age

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Dorothy Thompson on age

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
Aung San Suu Kyi on age

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.
Kiefer Sutherland on age

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
Edward Norton on age

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
Greer Garson on age

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt on age

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Rosalyn S. Yalow on age

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
Giacomo Casanova on age

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
Monica Edwards on age

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
Carlos Ghosn on age

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
Bryan Cranston on age

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders on age

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.
George Saunders on age