"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."

Age, Language, Magic, Trouble

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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Annie Dillard, American Author

Age, Loneliness

"I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons."

Jack Irons, American Musician

Age, Music, Time, First

"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."

Helen Garner, Australian Novelist

Age, Woman, Youth

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

Brigitte Bardot, French Actress

Age,

"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."

Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author

Age, May, Youth

"You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside."

Cheryl Tiegs, American Model

Age, Nothing

"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

Christopher Dawson, English Writer

Age, Values, Present

"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

Thomas Haden Church, American Actor

Age, Attention, Children, College

"Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it."

Young Buck, American Musician

Age,

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

Muddy Waters, American Musician

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"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."

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"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do."

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"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."

Man

"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."

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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."

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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."

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"Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless."

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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

"I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons."

"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age."

"You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside."

"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

"Around the age of 14, 15, I was in the studio, serious about it."

"I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age."

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"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."

"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."

"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers."

"Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea."

"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do."

"The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men."

"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."

"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."

"Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless."