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I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.

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Francis Ford Coppola
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Category: Experience

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
  • 2. You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
  • 3. To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.
  • 2. I love Louisiana. It's amazing.
  • 3. Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

3 Anger

  • 1. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts his presidency and worse our economy will be paralyzed.
  • 2. Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
  • 3. When you learn that a truth is a lie anger follows.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 2. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
  • 3. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.
  • 2. There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
  • 3. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
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