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I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Strength, Experience

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.
Haile Gebrselassie

Experience, Long, Another

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

Fun, Getting, Finding

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
Helena Bonham Carter

Death, Problem, Start

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.
Shaun White

Family, Fun, Snow

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
Simon Wiesenthal

Home, Parents, Silence

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly

Young, Faithful, Grow

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.
Emma Watson

Different, Trying, Off

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nothing, Convinced, Grown

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
Francesca Annis

Women, God, Men

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
Francesca Annis

Experience, Play, Acting

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
Julia Roberts

Women, Society, Live

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
Tracey Ullman

Love, Work, Between

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.
Rod Stewart

Dad, Husband, Become

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
Jennifer Lawrence

Focus, Until, Themselves

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus

Wind, Face, Stronger

The older I get the better I used to be!
Lee Trevino

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

Time, Friends, Getting

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.
Anne Lamott

Hurt, Someone, Book

Why is it that when we get older, we get more fearful?
Sandra Bullock

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
Adam Sandler

Good, Father, Try

I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
Jon Meacham

Time, True, Two

I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.
Emma Watson

Time, Nice, Black

I'm older, I'm matured... I'm looking forward to the years to come. Good years.
Whitney Houston

Good, Forward, Looking

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.
Christina Ricci

Family, Tomorrow, Getting

Finding out that I was gay when I was older was a shock and a disappointment.
Maurice Sendak

Gay, Finding, Shock

You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.
Jon Bon Jovi

Fat, Died, Jeans

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.
Tony Campolo

Young, Voting, Democratic

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.
Mindy Kaling

Live, Care, Children

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.
Francis Ford Coppola

Work, Father, Sometimes

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