"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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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

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"Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media."

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"A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true."

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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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