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"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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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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"He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."
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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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"I'd never been content in America."
America

"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
Life

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
Happiness

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
Film

"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."
Woman

"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
Love

"My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India."
Family

"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
Attention

"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Marriage

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
Children
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