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“George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?”

Has Beens Shows Age Guy Turns Twenties Thirty

Author:Johnny Carson

“I think most people start rock bands in their early twenties or teens, but I was almost thirty at the time when the band started really doing anything and it took another several years before people started caring about us.”

People Thinking Years Rocks Band Twenties Caring Thirty Teens Rock Bands

Author:Matt Berninger

“You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.”

Writing Years Happens Twenties Thirty Forty Whatever Happens Gravy

Author:John Guare

“I try to remember at least twenty to thirty things I'm grateful for every day, and I share those with at least one person that I am super grateful for.”

Trying Persons Remember Share Twenties Grateful Thirty

Author:John Feldmann

“People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists you up to hide who you are. It's not healthy, and the great gains that homosexuals have made in my lifetime, I think that we'll look back in twenty or thirty years and say, "I can't believe we ever made them go through that."”

People Thinking Years Believe Looks Made I Can Realizing Healthy Gains Twenties Who You Are Lifetime Thirty Homosexual Twists Thirty Years

Author:David Sedaris

“Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.”

People Knows Years Heart Ends Done Jobs Remember Five Teacher Hero Six Twenties Good Things Satisfied Thirty Forty Suspects

Author:Andy Rooney

“Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.”

People Needs Lost Five Musician Twenties Complicated Thirty Popularity Classical Music Twenty Five

Author:Dave Barry

“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.”

Way Jobs My Own New York Students College Late Married Twenties Nine Bother Thirty Apartment College Students Precocious

Author:Meghan Daum

“I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.”

Years Long Reason Jobs Political Twenties Seven University Thirty Temples Seven Years Philadelphia Scarves

Author:Gerald Stern

“I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.”

Writing Firsts Book Happens Five Twenties Expected Thirty

Author:David Sedaris

“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.”

Years Bigs Able Artist Song Kings Offers Succeed Twenties Intelligent Hip Hop Nine Hips Substance Thirty Hops Teenage Mcdonalds Macs Extending Mtv Ransom Hip Hop Artist Teenage Life Big Mac

Author:Chuck D

“Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.”

People Problem Dream Wish Groups Mankind Authority Twenties Unhappy Thirty Forty Entertaining Teens

Author:George Carlin

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy

“In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Doe Helping Would Be Turns Father Term Five Nice Doors Twenties Thirty Skeptical Digging Haircuts Good Father Nice Person Bad Haircuts

Author:Rashida Jones

“I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?”

“Cacao has the highest antioxidant concentration of any major food in the world. Cacao is thirty times higher in antioxidants than red wine, twenty times more potent in antioxidants than blueberries, three times higher than acai, and twice as much as chaga mushrooms. These antioxidants protect our cells from free radical damage and therefore contribute to our longevity and state of well-being.”

“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens Seems Past Talking Boys Five Comedy Serious Built Twenties Critics Inevitable Thirty Playwright Thirty Years Not Talking Twenty Five

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“If you have to pay about forty to forty-three percent of your income for housing, you also have to pay fifteen percent of your paycheck for the FICA for Social Security wage withholding. You have to pay medical care, you have to pay the banks for your credit card debt, student loans. Then you only have about twenty-five or thirty-five percent, maybe one-third of your salary to buy goods and services. That's all.”

“Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.”

Thinking Important Ends Seems Hours Novel Reader Twenties Narrative Thirty Enterprise Stakes Imaginative One Direction

Author:Emily Barton

“I think the Russians might do away with the terror in twenty or thirty or years, when they are richer, and when they don't need these repressive methods so much.”

Thinking Needs Years Might Twenties Method Terror Thirty

Author:Erich Fromm

“Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty or thirty years that we've been operating is now transferred to RPI.”

Years Listening Twenties Legacy Thirty Institute Thirty Years Dissolving Deep Listening

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.”

Years Has Beens Stories Born Pieces Twenties Thirty Collections Oscars Selected Thirteen Butlers Most Encouraging

Author:Andrew Lam

“[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."”

Thinking Said Two Reason Remember Father Minutes Position Ten Messages Died Twenties Thirty Goodbye Strokes Telephones Remember You Remembers You Short Words Rommel

Author:Manfred Rommel

“Twenty to thirty years ago, who was making documentary films? Nobody. Well, relatively few people. It was an art form that had limited theatrical distribution, if any at all. Some television distribution, but relatively small audiences regardless. And in the intervening years it's become more and more popular with a lot of people.”

People Ifs Years Wells Art Film Form Audience Television Years Ago Twenties Thirty Documentaries Distribution Theatrical Thirty Years Intervening Documentary Films

Author:Errol Morris

“I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.”

Thinking Years Hard School Jobs Hours Week College High School Twenties Thirty Frustrated Formative Years

Author:Jon Gordon

“These [conservative] people, if they're Americans, look back on the last 35 years of our ecclesial experience and take heart from that. The dramatic reform of seminaries continues. The priests and bishops who take their pastoral model from John Paul II will continue to do so, perhaps learning a lesson or two from Francis along the way - and they'll be the overwhelming majority of the Church's ordained ministers ten, twenty, thirty years from now.”

“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.”

“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!”

Ifs Heart Age Brain Havens Twenties Thirty Birthday Rebel Establishment Uprising 30th Birthday

Author:Kevin Spacey

“There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.”

Ends Literature Differences Twenties Nine Thirty

Book:The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes

Source: The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Mrs. Reynolds, and five earlier novelettes

“I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.”

Ifs Thinking Years Made Shows Business Five Twenties Musical Thirty Show Business Thirty Years Twenty Five

Author:Christopher Walken

“Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.”

Knows Men Years Lasts Liberty Twenties Blow Strikes Quitting Every Man Thirty Wicked Boss Sensible Worthless Flattery Thirty Years Parasites There Comes A Time Yawning Nevermind

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Way Feels Book Remember Reading Doors Movement Ought Twenties Library One Way Thirty Fifty Forty Trends Drag Bores Right Time Dropping Bookshops Bores You

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.”

Feels Children Stills Would Be Eye Age Felt Careers Wise Feet Hair Husband Twenties Thirty Gray Far Away Her Eyes Crow Knowledgeable Clueless Gray Hair

Book:PS, I Love You: A Novel

Source: PS, I Love You: A Novel

“At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.”

Mind Country Moments Walks Twenties Thirty Wrestling Seventies Somewhere Else Octopus Snooker

Author:Mark Haddon

“When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Ends Happens Age Three Courses Wonder Know How Five Strange Months Twenties Aging Mere Seven Decades Instant Thirty Bothered Hesitation Old You Hiccups

Author:Sara Gruen

“He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.”

Inspirational Years Stills Realizing Known Learning Twenties Breaths Remembered Thirty Another Year Still Hoping

Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”

Years Said Hard Running Strong Wind Hair Promise Letting Go Six Twenties Forgiving Fingers Blow Thirty New Year Sixteen Forgive Me Old Year Hard To Let Go

Book:An ordinary woman

Source: An ordinary woman

“A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.”

Knows Mind Humans Body Age Dies Waiting Human Beings Known Five Months Personality Female Twenties Posts Thirty Twelve Defects Femininity Mind And Body Twenty Five Shackles Ovaries

Author:Florence King

“Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again.”

Men Should Moving Born Broken Mass Rain Twenties Thirty Muscles Chests Agony Baptism Born Again Older Man

Author:Frank Miller

“It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.”

Men Needs Years Littles Soul States Reason Mother Animal Childhood Century Pure Eternity Twenties Structure Maturity Instant Thirty Vegetables Womb Early Childhood

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed.”

Years Together Worst Twenties Eight Fats Drunk Thirty Horizon Allies Cliche Here I Am Unloved Looming Bridget Jones Ally Mcbeal

Book:Good Men: An eShort Story

Source: Good Men: An eShort Story

“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”

Men World May Age Past Hours Opinion Morning Sun Four Ought Bed Optimism Twenties Uncomfortable Awake Thirty Warmth Mixtures Insomnia Twenty One Impunity

Book:The Little Nugget

Source: The Little Nugget

“You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde”

Long Whole Stories Age Five Wise Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Pale Sixty Worldly Seventies Twenty Five Cigar Mellow Overwork Long Story

Book:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.”

Ifs Book Waiting Twenties Thirty Compulsion

Book:Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.”

Ifs Years Young Reading Four Minutes Regret Six Twenties Thirty Worn I Regret Bikinis

Author:Nora Ephron

“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.”

Ifs Littles Doe Different Sometimes Character Stories Courses Attitude Wonder Opinion Novel Habit Tragedy Twenties Stuck Thirty Decoration Eccentricity New Habits

Author:Julian Barnes

“I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?”

Thinking Men Mean Important Use Age America Games Hours Five Saws Week Fronts Flower Normal News Twenties Average Folks Screens Video Thirty Reports Masculinity Twenty Five

Author:Joel Salatin

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”

Book Remember Doors Twenties Thirty Fifty Forty Bores Right Time Bookshops Bores You

Author:Doris Lessing