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"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
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"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."
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Personal Development
"Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it."
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Personal Development
"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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Personal Development
"In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
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Personal Development
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."
Poetry
"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."
Poet
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Books
"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."
Time
"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."
Past
"I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all."
Fact
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight."
Books
"Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book."
Hope
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