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"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing."
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"Old and young disbelieve one another's truths."
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"Old and young, we are all on our last cruise."
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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."
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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."
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"I've been performing on stage since I was six years old."
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"I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift."
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"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."
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"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
Love

"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
Woman

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."
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"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
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"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
Old

"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
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"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
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"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
Being
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