Dawn French Quotes
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I have a great team at WME.
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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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I owe everything I have to them when I'm out there on the mound. But I owe the fans nothing and they owe me nothing when I am not pitching.
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For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
