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I had to deal with death at a really young age. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. -- Jessica Lange
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. -- Jane Birkin
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis. -- Seamus Heaney
Death at an Early Age' was about racial segregation in Boston. 'Illiterate America' was about grownups who can't read. 'Rachel and Her Children' was about people who were homeless in the middle of Manhattan. -- Jonathan Kozol
I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people. -- Josh Homme
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. -- Cate Blanchett
When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway? -- Martin Donovan
I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. -- Azar Nafisi
I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal. -- Debra Messing
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept. -- Carol Leifer
I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave. -- Scotty McCreery
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back. -- David Johansen
One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories. -- Suzanne Collins
Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them. -- Marjane Satrapi
That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. -- Propertius
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education. -- Abraham Lincoln
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. -- Simone de Beauvoir
At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth. -- Peter Ustinov
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. -- Dee Hock
To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. -- Samuel Johnson
If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem. -- Julio Frenk

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