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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 trick is growing up without growing old.
  • 2. Old age is always wakeful as if the longer linked with life the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
  • 3. It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved and you can have great marriages and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
  • 2. I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.
  • 3. I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone learning some French.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger or I'd have to accept that it happened.
  • 2. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 3. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.
  • 2. Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
  • 3. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
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