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At 35 women are at the bottom level of middle age but we can look like we are absolutely in our prime. Even if you're badly out of shape, you can put yourself in good shape in two years, maximum.
Barbi Benton / Model
Bottom
Maximum
Prime
Women Are
Good Women Age
Badly
Good Shape
Middle Age
Shape
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I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
Marc Warren /
Twenties
Age Always I Am
Approaching
Trick
Ignore
Middle Age
Reckon
Signs
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I guess, as a conductor, one goes in and out of fashion. Your career starts with a bang, everyone thinks you're wonderful, and then with middle age, something happens and you go into the wilderness.
Jeffrey Tate / Conductor
Careers
Conductor
Fashion
Thinking
Wilderness
Bang
Middle Age
Thinks
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I was well into middle age when one of my children, then in the second grade, was found to be dyslexic. I had never known the name for it, but I recognized immediately that the symptoms were also mine.
Philip Schultz / Poet
Symptoms
Grade
Immediately
Middle Age
Recognized
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When I'm playing 'Rock Band,' I'm like, 'Man, someday, later on in life when I'm a famous rock star...' Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.
Tim Schafer / Computer Game Designer
Convince
Someday
Middle Age
Rock Band
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In my mind, if you went back to the Middle Ages, in Italy they'd be speaking Middle Age Italian. And at that point, it would obviously be indecipherable for us, but for the people of that time, it was just normal talking.
Jeff Baena / Screenwriter
Italian
Ages
For The People
Italy
Middle Age
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I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real.
Steve Forbert / Singer-Songwriter
Bleak
Middle
New Songs
Responsibility
Self Deprecating
Life Work Age
Chronicle
Middle Age
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson / Writer
Birthday
Smile
Age
Brain
Brain Power
Complicated
Doubt
Exercise
Female
Grows
Middle
No Doubt
Population
Proportion
School
School Days
Use
Now
Very
Bodily
Days
Improves
Indeed
Large
Middle Age
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Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.
Martin Filler /
Firm
Practice
Unusual
Although
Architectural
Countless
Emerge
Major
Loosely
Middle Age
Nonetheless
Principals
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
Luke Harding / Journalist
Forbidden
Late
Military
Generation
Middle Age
Result
Speaking
Syrian
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By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.
Linus Pauling / Chemist
Believe
Following
Middle
Nutrients
Practice
Twenty Five
Vitamins
Well Being
Years
Youth
Life Age Believe
Life Age Youth
Extend
Healthful
Middle Age
Practices
Proper
Thirty-Five
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'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.
Erika Jayne /
Aggressive
Lively
Making Money
Housewives
Middle Age
Pasture
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt / Former First Lady Of The United States
Good Morning
Age
Disappear
Evening
Passion
Shadow
Youth
Almost
Begun
Period
Eager
Entirely
Frequently
Happiest
Large
Midday
Middle Age
Passions
Shadows
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In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't live up to their heights.
Chris Lowell / Television Actor
Chill
Beside
Failed
Heights
Middle Age
Oh God
Showing
Struggles
Waters
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Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.
Terry Teachout / Critic
Boomers
Point Of View
Life Good Age
Cultural
Embraced
Middle Age
Struck
Surprisingly
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
Rachel Johnson / Editor
Fifty
Forty
Meditation
Menopause
Natural History
Stalking
Streets
Addition
David
Calls
Converse
Dads
Middle Age
Recent
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen / Novelist
Brooklyn
Compromise
Cushion
Edge
Health Insurance
Insurance
Middle Age
Struggling
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
Julie Burchill / Writer
Kindness
Age
Cleverness
Effort
Entertainers
Beauties
Firmly
Hang
Middle Age
Onto
Recommend
Substantial
Surely
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As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
Claire Messud / Novelist
Circumstances
Intention
Realization
Approaches
Fantasies
Inevitably
Limitations
Middle Age
Planned
Ship
Thwarted
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
Barry Humphries / Comedian
Age
Exclusive
Film
Middle
Old Age
Life Age Me
Life Age Old Age
Sure
Cate Blanchett
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Middle Age
Offered
Perhaps
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As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill / Writer
Age
Teen
Catholicism
Middle
Precocious
Towns
Barney
Converted
Dreamed
Graham
Happily
Local
Middle Age
Sadly
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I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, and you lose interest in that stuff. It's not serious.
Wynton Marsalis / Trumpeter
Aggressive
Bother
Criticism
Dealing
Middle Age
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Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.
F. Sionil José / Writer
Cost
Familiar
Hindrance
Mug
Deepening
Examined
Final
Followed
Imagining
Middle Age
Mirror
Retain
Stretched
Suggested
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