"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."

Age, Fame, Freedom, Now

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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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George Orwell, British Author

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

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"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers."

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"I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir."

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"When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace."

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"I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life."

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"But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe."

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