"I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin."

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Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

Thandie Newton

#Baby Quotes #Skins Quotes #Ageing Quotes

“Pain can be a beautiful thing.”
“Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.”

Source : "The Office: Spooked". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.”

Source : "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.
“Learn from the masses, and then teach them.”
“I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.”
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still.”
“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”

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