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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."
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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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"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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"I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five."
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"After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy 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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"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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