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    Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

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    We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

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    When I started in the business, years ago, people would always say, "You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it's over." I don't see that with TV. Maybe it's because I am getting older, but the kinds of roles I'm drawn to are more mature roles.

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    We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

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    We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

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    What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?

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    When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

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    Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

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    Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

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    Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

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    When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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    Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

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    You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.

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    You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

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    You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

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    You know you're getting older when your haters now want to kill you.

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    Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

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    You start doing your research and realizing that the fertility rate for women drops considerably. And you're like, "Oh my God, now I want to get pregnant, and now it's a crazy time where I might not be able to get pregnant because I'm getting older and my eggs are aging and my uterus isn't as fertile as it used to be and my loins are not where they used to be.

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    Your life may be draining away. Every day you may be getting older instead of younger, more frustrated instead of happier. Your job, your relationships may not be evolving - then your power is dwindling.

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    In the fifties... when they had their summer parties - there were always different colored lanterns on the lawn... and I get the funniest chill. In the end the bright colors always go out of life, have you noticed that? In the end, things always look gray, like a dress that's been washed too many times.

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    Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you’ll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

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    Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

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    .. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

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    My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older,’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

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    Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until there's nothing but the walls around you to show you where you end and the rest of the world begins.

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    One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living... and with each one, he thinks he feels patterns on his cortex going dark, settling to sleep forever, parts of whoever he's been losing all definition, reverting to dumb chemistry...

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    Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God love more' who end their life early; i can see life and the ability of age as an tremendous gift from God. When i see my 'almost to 70 years old' parents make me think, if I 70 look like and act like them i am not worried about getting older (which i never) because they has set of pleasant example of life at that age. (Ejump,2016)

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    There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.

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    There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.

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    One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change that you don’t like than there was when you were younger and you can’t do nothin’ about it.

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    She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

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    You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.

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    Well, you do have all those gray hairs." I point to the few silver strands coming through. "They're not gray," Mom barks at me as she opens her door. "They're strands of glittery goodness.

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    What I like best about cell phones is that I can talk to myself in the car now and nobody thinks it's weird.

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    You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

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    And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

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    Age is no guarantee of maturity.

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    You might be on the back nine of life, but it's good to finish strong.

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    Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

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    All younger people should know something. If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.

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    A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

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    [Getting older is] experience but it's also changing your mindset.

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    As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

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    As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

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    As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.

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    As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

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    Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

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    Getting older doesn't help you in the fact that you might have covered some of this ground before. So you're listening to a song that you know is a hit, but it just can't be a hit for you, it's gonna be a hit for somebody else. That's tough.

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    Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.

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    Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.