"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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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

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

Thomas Gold, Austrian Scientist

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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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"What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history."

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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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"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."

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"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it."

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"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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"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."

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"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."

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