"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."

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"My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."

Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

John Burroughs, American Author

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"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"

Frank Harris, Irish Author

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"There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing."

Work

"I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal."

People

"When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion."

Singing

"We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise."

Money

"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

Music

"Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience."

Experience

"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."

People

"When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it."

Singing

"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."

Culture

"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."

Pressure