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What's gratifying is that it's my books that are being read and reread until they're battered over the years. I love that.
Isobelle Carmody
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I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.


Dana Carvey
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The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
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Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
Michael A. Stackpole
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
John Madden
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
Patricia Polacco
I'm afraid of a cappella. I don't read music, and I have a hard time harmonizing. Basically, I'm a melody singer only.
Elizabeth Banks
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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.


Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.


George Brett
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I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.


Nobu Matsuhisa
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I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.
James Frey
When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first film, I was a kid of 11 years old, and I basically was playing a very young Ewok.
Warwick Davis
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
Patrick Modiano
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By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.


Michael Bergin
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I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.


Mats Sundin
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I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
Hulk Hogan
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Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.
Warren Cuccurullo
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.


Zooey Deschanel
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Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
Casey Kasem
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Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.
David Copperfield
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