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“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.”

Facts Age Wanted Young Actors Fun Worry Audience Stage Theatre Get Up Young Age

Author:Olivia Williams

“Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!”

Ends Shows Age Song Black Stage Letting Go Guitar Shirts Necks Terrified Jeans T Shirt Vans Covering Sabbath Microphones Horrific Pedals Van Halen Black Sabbath

Author:Phil Anselmo

“Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”

Age Childhood Stage One Day Glory Weary Manhood Pilgrimage Decrepit

Book:Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe

Source: Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introd. by Reginalde Wolfe

“Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.”

Men Age Growth Middle Stage Youth Adolescence Middle Ages Corresponding Boyhood

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey, he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy, available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences, his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.”

“The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.”

Age Stage Criticism Presses Pulpit Censure

Author:Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

“Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.”

Age Pain Alive Stage Paint Library Greek Shelves Crowded Chaucer

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.”

Age Grace Modern Stage Rate Attics Grimace

Author:Ezra Pound

“I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.”

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Author:Theophilus London

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

Giving Littles Art Stills Book Soul Age Lying Rooms Wonder Alive Stage Praise Delight Wit Thee Monument Applause Tombs Lodges Chaucer Spenser

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.”

“I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.”

Happens Age Death Song Dies Middle Stage

Author:Dolly Parton

“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”

Stills Age Past Found Stars Stage Blind Mere Suggestions Limitless Expanse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Author:Novalis

“I am the entertainer, the idol of my age I make all kinds of money when I go on the stage You see me in the papers, I've been in the magazines But if I go cold, I won't get sold I get put in the back in the discount rack Like another can of beans.”

Ifs Kind Age Stage Goes On Cold Paper All Kinds Magazines Idols Papers Entertainers Beans Racks Discounts

Author:Billy Joel

“The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?”

People Age Culture Lost Dark Mystery Stage Mass Threat Treasure Dark Ages Vigorous Amnesia

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Earthly providence is a travesty of justice on any other theory than that it is a preliminary stage, which is to be followed by rectifications. Either there must be a future, or consummate injustice sits upon the throne of the universe. This is the verdict of humanity in all the ages.”

Age Humanity Universe Justice Stage Theory Injustice Immortality Providence Thrones Verdict Travesty Rectification

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.”

Want Play Bigs Age Remember Stuff Sides Seeing Stage Angel Guitar Dust Gigs Dean

Author:Mike Patton

“As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.”

Giving Heart May Helping Light Age Lasts Force Forever Virtue Magic Stage Youth Ready Flower Ties Fades Remorse Parting Endeavour Guarding

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I am a producer of both rock and New Age music, I generally like all categories of music. In particular, I enjoy Ozzy's stage presence.”

Age Enjoy Rocks Stage Particular Producers Categories New Age Rama Stage Presence

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I dont have children, but I have 17 nieces and nephews, and they more than make up for anything that I can do. I have a stepdaughter, and I adore her to pieces, and I think about adoption. There are so many kids at different ages and stages that need families.”

Thinking Needs Children I Can Different Kids Age Can Do Pieces Stage Adoption Adore Nephew Niece Different Ages Niece And Nephew Stepdaughters

Author:Lauren Velez

“It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]”

Should Age Laughing Gone Stage Thee Decent

Author:Horace

“Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.”

Age Lasts Stage Old Age Release Retiring Veteran Superfluous Lag

Book:The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

Source: The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

“Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.”

Men Stills Age Stage Youth Weary Discontent Pilgrimage

Book:The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume

“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

Made Age Moving Interest Generations Groups Stage Citizens Target Adolescence Senior Artifacts Midlife Senior Citizen Stages Of Life Interest Groups

Author:Jill Lepore

“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.”

Men Matter Age Watches Gone Our Lives Stage Scene Stranger Tone Touched What Matters Reversal

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.”

“At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.”

People Want Age Young Growing Stage Pace Adolescence

Book:You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant time. It is true that you are quietly shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front seat as spectator, and if you have really played your part you are more content to sit down and watch.”

Ifs Believe Age Given Watches Stage Fronts Comfortable Down And Aging Old Age Pleasant Seats Believe In Me Spectators

Author:Jane Ellen Harrison

“Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.”

May Long Age Certain Growth Stage Youth Rivers Difficulty Originals Old Age Maturity Manifest Long Life

Book:Geographical Essays

Source: Geographical Essays

“If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.”

Ifs Mind Heart May Age Used Purpose Plans Stage Willing Blessing Flow Prepared Gods Will Bitter Transition Open Mind

Author:T. D. Jakes

“But basketball was always something I was good at, that I was passionate about. I just didn't have the confidence to play in front of people at the time, at that early age. Now, I feel like I'm ready to play in front of people and play on the big stage.”

People Feels Play Bigs Age Stage Fronts Ready Basketball Passionate

Author:Lil B

“For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.”

Years Long Made Two Age Parent Journey Stage Wind Finals Old Age Two Years Long Journey

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.”

Want Writing I Can Two Different Age Film Modern Stage Broken Different Things Serving This Day Concerts Parameters Modern Age Film Writing

Author:Aaron Zigman

“God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.”

Helping Age Choices Path Stage Guides Gods Will

Book:A Woman After God's Own Heart®

Source: A Woman After God's Own Heart®

“I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.”

Want Age Stage Kings Lear Keel

Author:Rainn Wilson

“To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.”

People Way Hands Age Night Stage Mark Shame Myth Old Age Useless Officials Our Society Old Fashioned Old People Inability Spotlight Good Night Impotence Center Stage

Author:Sam Keen

“What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without ground for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.”

Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

“When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.”

Firsts Age Stage Performers

Author:Ethel Waters

“From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.”

Age Young Taken Stage Band Ambition Musician Young Age Pursued

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.”

Self Age Stage Adulthood Self Knowledge

Author:John Fowles

“The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show.”

Years Wells Shows Age School Three Left Teacher Stage Taught Tvs Drama Directors Concepts Theater Three Years Tv Shows Headmistress

Author:Robert Kazinsky

“I think that dancing has helped or prepared me, in a number of different ways, for the film industry, especially with controlling your nerves when you walk into an audition because you're on stage from a young age.”

Thinking Way Different Age Film Young Walks Numbers Stage Industry Dancing Prepared Different Ways Nerves Auditions Young Age Film Industry

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.”

People Feelings Age Audience Stage Car Huge Theater Flying Cheer Really Amazing

Author:Ellen Marlow

“Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession.”

Years Facts Bigs Kids Age Young Decision Forget Stage Music Is Impact Profession Piano Performing Chicago Orchestra Symphony Classical Music Eleven Symphony Orchestras

Author:Herbie Hancock

“When I was 14-15 years old I was able to earn a little money from time to time but I'm not complaining since, very soon I could provide a normal living. I was discovered also by other musicians and they asked me to work with them. Even in my early age several well-known artists asked for my services both on the stage and in the studio. This experience proved to be very useful, musicians showed me various musical situations and various music experiments.”

Years Wells Littles Age Able Artist Situation Known Stage Normal Musician Musical Various Studios Complaining Experiments Well Known Little Money

Author:Richard Clayderman

“For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!”

Love Age Stage Mines Mcdonalds Gowns Over The Top

Author:Katherine Jenkins