Quotes About Maturity

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

We're sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that's hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.

One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

When I was a bit younger, I made too much of trying to stick up for myself. But I don't need to prove that I'm not soft or too young any more.

As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

I've turned 30 now and, although there will always be a bit of the rock chick in me, I'm trying to embrace my softer and more feminine side. And I am trying really hard to be healthy.

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Some age, others mature.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.