A Quote by May Sarton
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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As a kid, I mostly played as a No 10. When I was really young, I played as a striker. But I grew a lot when I was older, and when I was 15, 16, I had a big growth, and so I changed a little bit and became slower.
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As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.
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All that young people have to look up to are older role models, and I think it's important to have people like myself show that it's OK to be who you are when you're young.
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