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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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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
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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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"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."
Imagination

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."
Paris

"My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American."
Family

"My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do."
Parents

"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."
Love

"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."
Age

"I've always been mad about cats."
Cats

"I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."
People

"I never found accents difficult, after learning languages."
Learning

"I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."
Life
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