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Armistead Maupin

"I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along."

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"I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along."

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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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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

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"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along."

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