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When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.

Alex Trebek

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LifeHomeChildrenTimeWifeBusy

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

Jennifer Hudson

YourselfYouGoLivingTryOut

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.

Jeff Lemire

FatherSonEyesMyselfChildWorld

I don't think about 'age groups.'

Michael Foreman

AgeThinkAboutGroups

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

Simon Van Booy

StrengthWisdomBeginningAcceptance

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Mohsin Hamid

DeathPeopleTalkBirthNeedNovel

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

Julia Davis

FunnyMeSomeoneYouFindKnow

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Joyce Banda

WomenOnlyJoyce

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

Judy Gold

CityAudienceStayDevelopComics

I don't care if the average guy on the street really knows what I'm like, as long as he knows I'm not really a mean, vicious guy. My friends and family know what I'm really like. That's what's important.

Don Rickles

FamilyFriends And FamilyCareLong

I have never been much of a painter.

Christian Marclay

NeverBeenPainterMuch

I have nine compartments in my brain, and four of them don't stop.

Bob Saget

BrainStopFourNineThem

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

Bob Taft

FutureOpportunityEyesTimePresent

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