Fiona Apple Quotes

I honestly don't think you're taken seriously until you're 30. Any ideas I've ever taken to the BBC, they've told me I wasn't ready for it.

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

I think that me now, I wouldn't take a 16-year-old seriously in any capacity. "You're a kid, why would I listen to you? You're a child."

When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

I know I look super young.

But when you get a bit older, and I hate to use the word, quite a bit more established, people take more notice and conducting becomes a great deal easier. You don't have battles like you had before.

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.

When you are old enough to... play powerful parts, who cares if you are 45, 55 or 65?

People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

You can't put an age on power.

I do have a lot to learn, and I think that has a big factor in everything. Being 19 years old and being able to be in the UFC has a big effect on every single thing that people look at.

I think I have respect from players, coaches, and certain media who watch the games. I'm not a youngster anymore.

When you're you long enough, you get to this space where people start respecting you.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.