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"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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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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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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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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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge."
Challenge
"The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film."
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"But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me."
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"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."
Cruelty
"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."
Job
"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
Children
"They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choice!"
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes."
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