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“Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.”

Thinking Age Maturity Confused Intensity Relative

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.”

People Thinking Bigs Age Girl Left Strange Freeze Big Changes

Author:Zayn Malik

“I'd got to that age when I was out on a date with a guy and I would be thinking: Don't mention your age, don't mention that you want a child - because they would just run out the door.”

Thinking Want Children Would Be Running Age Guy Doors

Author:Denise Van Outen

“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.”

Thinking Feels Should Kind Age Form Young Taken Wonderful Encouragement Artistic Endeavor Scope Attempting Young Writers Inexperience

Author:Tea Obreht

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.”

Thinking Persons Age Crazy Better Person Being Crazy Matured

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.”

Thinking Age Starting Scary

Author:Paula Patton

“I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.”

Thinking Knows Feels Years Said Reason Would Be Age Numbers Doctors Active Lists Ridiculous Bloody Vitamins

Author:Regis Philbin

“It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.”

Thinking Stills I Can Kids Age Certain Left Grows Cities Growing Up Alive Chicago Realised

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Age Player Generations Tennis This Generation Tennis Player Best Ever

Author:Samantha Stosur

“The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.”

Thinking Book Facts Age Attention Assuming Novelists This Day

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.”

Thinking Age Wanted Tree Producers Thirteen

Author:Jeff Lynne

“This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.”

Thinking Men Age Film Cry Proud Fourth Single Man

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid.”

Thinking I Can Kids Age Remember Guy Ridiculous Autographs

Author:Jim Thome

“In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.”

People Thinking World Feels Eye Age Fear Technology Information Goes On Amount Constant Storm Access Confusion Overwhelmed Baskets Overflow Eye Of The Storm

Book:Venus in Arms

Source: Venus in Arms

“Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.”

Thinking World Way Feels Stills Book Kids Age Realizing Changed Adults Affected Mail Pivotal

Author:Lois Lowry

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.”

People Thinking Feels Should Age Certain Sports Retiring

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.”

Thinking Humans Use Age Building Materials Capable Edges Surface Convinced Human Life Dull Scratches Richness Polished Absorbing

Book:Peter Zumthor

Source: Peter Zumthor

“I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.”

Thinking Age Past Percentages Here And Now

Author:Rohinton Mistry

“I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.”

Thinking Age Mediocrity

Author:Dick Cavett

“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

People Thinking Firsts Believe Age Artist Growing Up Records Growing Youth Becoming Speech Responsible Obligation Amendments Freedom Of Speech Assured First Amendment

Author:Ja Rule

“I love what Chris & Katy are bringing to the table with Coal Train Railroad. It makes ME feel like a kid again! I think children of all ages will love the humor, silliness and the catchy, cool, and crazy music that reminds us all that music should be fun to listen to. I’m honored (and slightly tickled) to be part of this wonderful project. Thanks!”

Thinking Feels Should Children Kids Age Fun Wonderful Crazy Projects Tables Train Thanks Coal Honored Railroads Catchy Silliness

Author:Jeff Coffin

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”

“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”

Thinking World Want Wells Kind Age Certain Term Millions Fantasy Magic Television Realism Expanding Hammered Magic Realism

Author:Terry Gilliam

“I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.”

Thinking Book Done Whole Age Guy Names Seeing Draws England Comic Italian Comic Book Mafia Russian Mafia

Author:Dave Gibbons

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in the computer age. I think I'd be a very different writer. I find myself cutting and pasting, changing things around and deleting whole paragraphs constantly.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Different Whole Age Wonder Cutting Computer Paragraph Revising Deleting

Author:Megan McCafferty

“I would be annoyed if I were any more in tune with modern sensibilities. I was shaped differently. The world in which I grew up was Texan and Southern, and it had many, many failings. I think I've gotten rid of most of the bad things in myself from that earlier age, but I don't adjust to the way things are progressing now.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Would Be Age Progress Failing Modern Grew Grew Up Tunes Bad Things Southern Sensibility Annoyed Texan

Author:John Graves

“This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.”

Thinking Mind Age Anxiety Nerves Neurosis Grate

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“I think when you're younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age.”

People Thinking Needs Age

Author:Bonnie Wright

“I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Heart Matter Age America Song Sound Subjects Elements Subject Matter Writing From The Heart

Author:Gerry Beckley

“Food fighters in Japan think of themselves as athletes. They have a higher recognition of the game and are constantly thinking about records. I probably won't continue for long because it puts pressure on the body. But I am at the age where I can perform my best.”

Thinking Long I Can Body Age Games Records Higher Pressure Athlete Fighter Recognition Japan Constantly Thinking

Author:Takeru Kobayashi

“It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.”

Thinking Play Would Be Age Difficult Growing Difficulty Determine Sermons

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“You want to know about a certain period and what happened?-You go into this building and all of a sudden you are transported! You're not just shown pictures, not even 3-D pictures, not even movies, but suddenly you are transported live by a time machine to that very time, that very age and you see it happen, you watch it happen, you hear it happen, you feel it happen! Think of it! Not only the movies but the 'feelies'! You are there!”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Happens Age Certain Watches Happened Building Periods Machines Heavenly Live By Time Machine

Author:David Berg

“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.”

Thinking Knows Age Actors Competition Actresses Girlfriend

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.”

Thinking Should Writing Age Mankind Youth Satire Apology

Author:Horace

“Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.”

Thinking Would Be Age Film Interesting Comfort Comfortable Appeals Instant Girlfriend Old Girlfriend

Author:Bill Murray

“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?'”

Thinking Kind Facts Age Young Courage Bravery Bullying Young Age Bullied Being Bullied

Author:Lady Gaga

“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.”

Ifs Thinking Years Age Guy Strong Perfect Class Nba Elsewhere Senior Juniors Scenarios Threshold Senior Year

Author:Rick Pitino

“I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.”

People Thinking Giving Enough Age Students College Come Up Credit Range Grandparent College Students Disney Channel

Author:Hilary Duff

“I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky”

Thinking Knows Age Wanted Young Car Tvs Lucky Luck Young Age Gears Top Gear

Author:Richard Hammond

“Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.”

Thinking Real Age Healthy Concern Abuse Steroid

Author:Ben Miller

“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.”

“My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back, "I think that love is my favorite thing in this whole world..." Me too, Zoe, me too.”

Thinking World Love Said Whole Age Romance Love Is My Favorite Whole World Yearning Favorites Things Wooing

Author:Sark

“Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Might Age Written Danger Particular Miracle Disaster Denial California Exposed

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.”

Thinking Age Beautiful Quality Modern Laughter Introduction Modern Age Happiness And Laughter

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason”

People Thinking Writing Doe Reason Age Religion Picks Fortune Old Age Phrases Jargon Age Of Reason

Author:Thomas Paine

“Analogies and metaphors have often proved pivotal in expanding our thoughts both within and without science, and so one should not discourage the attempt to synthesize apparent opposites. However, citizens of the New Age often forget that, when they involve science, analogies should be tempered by experiment and calculation.”

Thinking Should Age Forget Citizens Opposites Metaphor Experiments Our Thoughts New Age Expanding Discouraging Calculations Analogies Pivotal

Author:Tony Rothman

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