Getting Old Quotes - Page 15

• I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

  Alexis Bledel

  Thinking, Interesting, Getting Older

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• I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Men, Getting Older, Way

  "Leonardo DiCaprio On Playing A Repressed Gay Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

  Erica Jong

  Cycle Of Life, Understanding, Getting Older

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Getting Older

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Circles, Getting Older

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• There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

  Erica Jong

  Getting Older, Stories, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.

  Felipe Esparza

  Yesterday, Police, Getting Older

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• You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.

  Felipe Esparza

  Getting Older, Want, Your Haters

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• Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Choices, Creepy

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• Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• Why must everything be repeat and repeat, never finish, never resting? You work so hard one day, but the next day you must only work again. You eat, but the next day, you are already hungry. You find love, then love goes away. You are born with nothing, you work hard, then you die with nothing. You are young, then you are old. No matter how hard you work, you cannot stop getting old. - Wayan

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hard Work, Next Day, Finding Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.255, A&C Black

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

  Sara Gruen

  Real, War, What If

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• Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

  Bil Keane

  Tired, Simple, Needs

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• I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

  John Scalzi

  Mind, Young, Being Old

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners all over San Francisco. Their hair is tangled and their bare feet are thick and gray as shoes. We're sick of them.

  Jennifer Egan

  Hippie, Hair, Shoes

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.31, Anchor

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• Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

  Lionel Shriver

  Kids, Government, People

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• Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Smell

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.29, Penguin

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• You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself
  about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time
  is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used
  the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole
  different story.

  Diane Sawyer

  Dream, Passion, Getting Older

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• There's no such thing as turning back the hands of time, and it makes me crazy that we live in a society where that's sold to women—that we're supposed to believe that if we're getting older, we've failed somehow, that we have failed by not staying young. I wish that women would let other women age gracefully and allow them to get older and know that as we get older, we become wiser.

  Cameron Diaz

  Crazy, Believe, Hands

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• Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Survival, Unimportant

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• Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.

  Howie Mandel

  Running, Kids, Getting Older

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• It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

  Jonathan Evison

  Easy, Clear, Old You

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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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