#forties

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#books #confident #continued #even #eventually

A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult. ↗

— John Newcombe

#couple #days #difficult #few #forties

As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#forties #got #i #into #student

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#anything #boundless #forties #good #good health

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. ↗

— John Malkovich

#fifties #forties #hat #new #new york

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested. ↗

— James Marsters

#brain #clear #control #decade #forties

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#easy #ego #ever #fifties #forties

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters