#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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#did #forties #friends #know #love

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

And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#basie #black #count #course #drummers

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

— Gary Oldman

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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

Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#forties #getting #pregnant #thinking #time

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#forty #four #friends #friendship #i

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