I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene. ~Nicolas Cage
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In Indiana we had a queen we named Alice which lived to the ripe old age of eight years and two months and did excellent work in her seventh year. There can be no doubt about the authenticity of this statement. We sold her to John Chapel of Oakland City, Indiana, and she was the only queen in his yard with wings clipped. This, however is a rare exception. At the time I was experimenting with artificial combs with wooden cells in which the queen laid. ~Jay Smith
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ~French Proverb
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I was never one to go up to someone as a five- or six-year-old and say, "Hello, my name's Paul, will you be my friend?" But I found if I did an impression of the PE teacher or whatever and people laughed, then they did like me, and so then they started talking to me, rather than me making the initial overture and then maybe being rebuffed. ~Paul Merton
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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Dig the well before you are thirsty. ~Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. ~Turkish Proverb
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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I have noticed that people tend to stop maturing when they start self-medicating. Everyone has very tough seasons of life, but by persevering through them we have an opportunity to mature and grow as people. Those who self-medicate, often thwart maturity as they escape the tough seasons of life rather than face them. ~Mark Driscoll
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He is like the perverse porter who calls upon God only when he is under the load. ~Arabic Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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You can't judge a book by its cover. ~English Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ~Jamaican Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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