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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Death, Senior

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

  Peter Ustinov

  Peace, War, Age

  Romanoff and Juliet act 1 (1956)

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• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

  Sophocles

  Men, Eugenics, Age

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• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  Nadine Gordimer

  People, Giving

  Nadine Gordimer (2005). “Get a Life”

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• I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

  Norman Rockwell

  Fool, Celebration, Hell

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• When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"

  Nancy Astor

  Family, Dying, Lasts

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  Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Epic, Men

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• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  Bobby Sherman

  Love, Real, Kids

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• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Brittany Snow

  Party, Parent, Twists

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• We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

  Christina Hendricks

  Country, Stars, Thinking

  "Mad Men and me: Christina Hendricks interview". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

  Debbie Macomber

  Husband, Years, Popcorn

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• I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Competition, Fans

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• Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

  Phoebe Cary

  Heart, Soul, Grace

  Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.118

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• I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

  Brit Marling

  Party, Ideas, People

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• I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

  Chaz Bono

  Shaving, Stuff, Natural

  "Chaz Bono: 'I Always Wanted to Shave'". www.digitalspy.com. November 01, 2009.

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• I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

  Emmy Rossum

  Kids, Gymnastics, Class

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• I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Thinking, Ebay, Creepy

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• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

  Gene Tierney

  Hollywood, Sparks, Contracts

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• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

  George Saunders

  Drama, Rain, Character

  "George Saunders's Wild Ride". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2010.

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• The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

  Sloane Crosley

  Queens, Gun, Thinking

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Vintage, Sentimental, Age And Experience

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• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Passion, Other Worlds, Age

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Racism, Parent

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• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Men, Views, Age

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