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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years? We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It is a real shame if we do not spend our lives trying to do that.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

I am a pretty big dork. It is crazy. I am one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where Rent was a big deal for me and for my friends.

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called High Society, so we moved to New York for the run of that.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

And I am not as young as I once was. At my age, I do not have time to be bored.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew did not think they had come home alive. I did not think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the permanent quarterback. I did not know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he is my age. That is kinda hard to deal with.

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I am growing older, I am just growing more impatient. I will be very happy if at some point people say, Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age. But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.