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"I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered."
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"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
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"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"
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"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."
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"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."
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"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."
Time

"Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen."
Being

"I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me."
Life

"When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag."
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"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."
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