I was born in Seoul, South Korea; then I moved to New York City at the age of seventeen. In New York, I studied art and photography. I thought I would be a painter; then I saw Walker Evans when I was in college, and that had a great impact on me. Being in the darkroom making B&W prints was such a magical experience.
From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age. I had my kids while I was in utero.
You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.
I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.