Dorothy Canfield Fisher Quotes
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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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 had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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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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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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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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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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I'm really passionate and love everything lifestyle-oriented, so that's what I do on my website. I have been able to get other people to contribute to the website to create kind of a hub for people in the millennial generation - people my age.
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There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
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Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
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Right away I think of two books - 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Rebecca' - and of just sinking into them as a young reader. I think they must have appealed not just to my romantic adolescent soul, but I suppose there's also an appealing darkness in both of them.
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There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
