Getting Old Quotes - Page 8

• We may be aware of small increments of getting older; we may meet an increasing number of people who make us uneasy with their youth; but the fact of being old ourselves comes as a surprise, and is often accompanied by the belief that there has been some mistake.

  Terri E Apter

  Mistake, Numbers, People

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• I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

  Stan Musial

  Summer, Thinking, Years

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

  Erin Andrews

  Lying, Getting Older, Grit

  "Up Close with Erin Andrews". Interview with Kristen Aldridge, www.shape.com.

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• Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

  Joy Behar

  Beautiful, Talking, Getting Older

  "Joy Behar Mocks Rush Limbaugh's Physical Appearance". Interview with Justin McCarthy, www.newsbusters.org. December 4, 2008.

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• It's weird how people hate getting older.

  Dan Deacon

  Hate, People, Getting Older

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 20, 2012.

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• I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Father, Kids, Getting Older

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

  Steve Coogan

  Getting Older, Bits

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• I never say never to anything. I don't really think it would be for me, but I never put limitations on myself. Part of getting older is acceptance, though, so I'd like to think I'll age gracefully. But if other women get confi dence from having surgery, then I would never judge.

  Donna Air

  Acceptance, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

  Stephen King

  Degrees, Stories, Way

  Interview with Catherine Elsworth, www.goodreads.com. November 2014.

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• One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

  Patti Smith

  Compassion, Getting Older, Capacity

  Source: thehollywoodvoice.com

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• Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Growing Up, Interesting, Horrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

  Denis Leary

  Creative, Getting Older, Acting

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Wrinkles, Hair, Years

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• I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Getting Older, Tendencies

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I'm good with getting older, because I feel like one day, I know I will love myself. I can't imagine staying at one age. Ideally, I'd want to be 20 physically but 40 mentally.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Getting Older, Age, One Day

  "Comic-Con 2011: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Andrew Niccol Interview IN TIME". Press conference, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see

  Julian Clary

  Getting Older, Desire, Conquer

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• You have to embrace getting older.

  Meryl Streep

  Getting Older, Embrace

  "Interview: Meryl Streep Up Close". Interview with Martyn Palmer, www.goodhousekeeping.com. July 8, 2008.

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• When you're young and you get to choose between sleep and sex you take sex everytime. You start getting older, you get to choose between sleep and sex, you choose sleep and just hope you have a dream about sex.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

  Ridley Scott

  Getting Older, Want, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better

  Oprah Winfrey

  Morning, Opportunity, Getting Older

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning.

  Randy Alcorn

  Getting Older, Bigger, Humans

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers”, p.33, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying.

  David Thewlis

  Jobs, Worry, Insecurity

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

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• The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Summer, Easter, Pain

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