Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.
The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.
I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.
Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.
I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.
Adenoid Hynkel: [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"] Phooey!
