Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. – Julia Roberts
I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn’t a matter of them missing me. I was missing them. – Jane Pauley
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approximates a ‘whisper’ is encryption. When I cannot whisper in my wife’s ear or the ears of my business partners, and have to communicate electronically, then encryption is our tool to keep our secrets secret. – John McAfee
People are branded as either ‘fat’ or ‘skinny’ from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight. – Jami Attenberg
My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever. – Iain De Caestecker
The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age. – Joe Cocker
I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave. – Jewel
The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with. – Ian Mckellen
I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age. – Ger Duany
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. – John Ruskin
For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me ‘illegal,’ as if I’m an insect on someone’s back. I found out I didn’t have the right papers – that I was here illegally – when I tried to get a driver’s permit at age 16. But I am not ‘illegal.’ No person is. – Jose Antonio Vargas
Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. – Jack Nicholson
I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I’m excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they’re usually very cordial, nice and polite. – Ian Harding
I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the ‘Mad Men’ television series without moving a desk. – Jerry Della Femina
When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt. – John le Carre
I’m blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn’t have many pictures. – Jaime Pressly
The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. – Hume Cronyn
The generation that I’m in is extremely talented, and those that are still in school, my peers that are my age that will be out here really soon, you guys will see, will make a pretty easy transition on the PGA Tour. I don’t think they will have a problem at all. The game is getting younger, and the game is getting better. – Jordan Spieth
I wrote ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself. – John le Carre
In this day and age, much of journalism is about right or left, conservative or liberal, and ‘The Observer’ is just that: an observer. It is about truth. – Jared Kushner
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. – James Buchan
I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. – Idina Menzel
I was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves. – Jamie Lee Curtis
Kids at a certain age don’t necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world. – James Nesbitt
I’ve yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age. – Jane Goldman
