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    Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.

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    Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

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    Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

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    Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

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    My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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    Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

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    Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

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    My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

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    No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

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    My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it.

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    Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.

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    Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older.

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    My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

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    One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

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    One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

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    Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits.

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    Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

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    Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

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    Society is so tough and expectations are so unrealistic. Could I take better care of myself? Absolutely. I joke all the time that I'm old and I'm getting older and I feel it, so I guess I would rather talk about it with a smile and say, 'Oh God, I'm old!' than spend all my time at the dermatologist. I approach aging with ice cream and a martini.

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    Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

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    Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

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    That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

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    The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

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    The 40s onwards are when we can really begin to enjoy ourselves. For many women, this is when everything comes together, and they look better than ever. The great thing about getting older is you don't have to do/wear/say anything you don't want to. It wasn't until my very late 30s that I stopped worrying about what other people thought.

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    The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

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    Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

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    The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.

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    The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

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    The great thing about getting older is living life.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

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    The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

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    The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

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    The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

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    The older I get, the better I was.

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    The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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    The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

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    The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

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    There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

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    The older I get, the better I used to be.

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    The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

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    The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.

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    The older I get, the more I feel.

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    There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

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    The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

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    There's nothing good about getting older-absolutely nothing-because the amount of wisdom and experience you gain is negligible compared to what you lose. You do gain a couple of things-you gain a little bittersweet and sour wisdom from your heartbreaks and failures and things-but what you lose is so catastrophic in every way.

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    This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.

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    The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer is one. Having children is another. And getting older and watching, you know, my parents and grandparents get older has been another, the seasons of - being witness to the seasons of life and wanting to have some kind of infrastructure to deal with it, to cope with them. Ritual has become more important to me as I've gotten older. It's not always religious ritual, but it often borrows from Judaism.

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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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    There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.