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"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."
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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."
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"I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait."
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"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
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"I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows."
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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
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"Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?"
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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."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
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"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
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"It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it."
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"Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate."
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"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."
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"I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere."
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"If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting."
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"Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in."
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"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."
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"I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think."
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"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."
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"I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression."
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