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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties. -- Ian Somerhalder
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties. -- Lena Dunham
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me. -- Antonio Banderas
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. -- Harold Bloom
Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. -- Lena Dunham
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. -- James Cagney
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. -- Bill Gates
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. -- Winona Ryder
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published -- Caroline B. Cooney
Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. -- John Berger
I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties. -- Tommy Rettig
The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. -- J. Paul Getty
I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty. -- Sienna Miller
Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love. -- Candace Bushnell
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical. -- Bill Gates
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted. -- Adam Lambert
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff. -- Chaka Khan
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. -- Georges Clemenceau
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. -- Hugh Hefner
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists. -- Kristin Davis
Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies. -- Matthew McGrory
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through. -- Jeremy Sisto
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013. -- Stefan Sagmeister
In my early twenties, I had no idea who I was. And I think that's one reason you should try different relationships. I've had good and bad ones, but I took away things from them that helped me become who I am. -- Cobie Smulders
There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper. -- Sloane Crosley
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman. -- John Berger
The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner. -- Laura Carmichael
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. -- Judith Jamison
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts. -- Lily James
When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind. -- Kim Cattrall
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world. -- Charles Frazier
In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots. -- Terrence Howard
When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period. -- Martin Scorsese
I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown. -- Ken Livingstone
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever. -- David LaChapelle
When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties. -- Joan Collins
I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me. -- George Clooney
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. -- Jennifer Ehle
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me. -- Theodore Sturgeon
The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. -- Clint Eastwood
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that. -- Daniel Radcliffe
In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait! -- Jasmine Guinness
You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times. -- Johnny Galecki
Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate. -- Donna Air
I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem. -- Miranda Hart
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness. -- Paul Merton
Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself. -- Helen Hunt
I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift. -- Miranda Hart
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement. -- Edmund White
In my twenties I would be skeptical of a bad haircut, but once you turn thirty it's more about whether he a nice person and does he open the door for me. Once you turn thirty-five, it's more about would he make a good father. And even if you're just liking somebody and digging on someone, I think you can't help but think in those terms. -- Rashida Jones
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. -- Robert Redford
In your twenties, everything makes you crazy. -- John Densmore
I started going gray in my early twenties. -- Matt LeBlanc
In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker. -- James Ransone
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties. -- Dave Allen
I was just dying to get out of my twenties. -- Juliana Hatfield
When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. -- Moby
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. -- Lydia Davis
We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome. -- Taylor Swift
Goalkeepers aren't born today until they're in their late twenties or thirties. -- Kevin Keegan
Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties. -- Steve Martin
I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough. -- Delta Burke
In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are. -- Ethan Hawke
Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known -- Alexander McCall Smith
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient. -- Bill Gates
I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. -- Kirk Hammett
I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident. -- Katherine Heigl
It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents. -- Joy Browne
It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult. -- Robbie Robertson
Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into. -- Bill Burr
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. -- Kathryn Harrison
I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties. -- Jake Shears
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. -- Martin Amis
Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties! -- Emilia Clarke
We women are doing pretty well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties. (1976 -- Margaret Mead
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. -- Michael Crichton
Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them. -- Sharon Horgan
I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling. -- Abigail Disney
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties. -- Rick Aster
Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time. -- Andy Rooney
I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties. -- Paul Theroux
I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere. -- Carrie Fisher
I had sex with a couple guys but it wasn't a baseball team. I saved that for my twenties. -- Chelsea Handler
I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now. -- Sunny Mabrey
It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. -- George Michael
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost? -- Soren Kierkegaard
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become. -- Adam Braun
I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on. -- Crispin Glover
If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right. -- Nico Tortorella
In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. -- Cheryl Strayed
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I think you make mistakes, especially in your twenties, where you date guys you wouldn't even be friends with - ever. -- Rashida Jones
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. -- M.M. Kaye
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. -- Sarah Lancashire
I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy. -- Stephen Merchant
If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties. -- Isabella Rossellini
I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties. -- James Young
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. -- Paula Fox
I played rugby from the age of 10 until my late twenties; an unlikely player - small, quiet, long-haired and 'wiry.' -- Anthony Browne
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives. -- Lena Dunham
parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond. -- Danielle Monsch
Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done. -- Barry Diller
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again. -- David Nicholls
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties. -- Buzz Aldrin
I dont want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties. -- Zainab Salbi
Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly. -- Uma Thurman
TV evangelists say they don't favor any particular denomination, but I think we've all seen their eyes light up at tens and twenties. -- Dennis Miller
I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin. -- Leslie Mann
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him. -- Doug Stanhope
Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion. -- Woody Allen
I'm just as normal as anybody else. I'm just probably in the same place as many people in their mid to late twenties are. -- Tristan Prettyman
When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff. -- Chaka Khan
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion. -- Pauline Kael
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite. -- Steve Kangas
As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties. -- Elliot Cowan
I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way. -- Jamie Cullum

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