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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

Age, Character, Will, World

"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Age, Youth

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Age, Absurdity, May

"Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Age, Forget, Invention

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Age, Work, Genius, Cleanliness

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Age, Abundance, Harvest, Old

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

Willa Cather, American Author

Age, Writer

"Old age and the passage of time teach all things."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Time, Old

"A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Age, Months

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

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

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"I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be."

Belief

"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."

First

"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."

Woman

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."

Mother

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

Mother

"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."

Men

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."

Mother

"In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it."

People

"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."

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