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What worries you about getting older?Originally asked
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Being alone and other people getting busier with families and life.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
One by one the more vigorous sports and exacting games fall away. Exceptional exertions are purchased only by a more pronounced and more prolonged fatigue. Muscles may relax, and feet and hands slow down; the nerve of youth and manhood may become less trusty. But painting is a friend who makes no undue demands, excites to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude. Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely.
Certainly not. As a young child, I remember just dreaming about the Nobel Prize, but that was just a dream. It’s not something I would have ever thought was possible for me.
Having regrets.
Nothing. I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you.
Handing out the tequilas.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
Making my mum proud.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
An office in the garden.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
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