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• 'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

  Rob Sheffield

  Queens, Fighting, Boys

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Dad

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• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.

  Larry David

  Funny, Childhood, Tough

  "Larry David: More Enthusiasm, Curbed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 23, 2005.

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• Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Moving, Home, Never Quit

  "Spring Fling Is Not Important". Interview with Brooke McCord, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Best Year

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Adulthood is knowing that a fully realized character is always more important than the lines.

  Megan Crane

  Character, Knowing, Important

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• maturity ... is letting things happen.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Acceptance, Maturity, Letting Things Happen

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• Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Cynical, Substitutes

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.278, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, Welcome, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.169, Penguin

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• Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Mean, Psychological, Attainment

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• It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Hard

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.48, Gideon House Books

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• As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.

  Ray Stevenson

  Real, People, Touching

  Source: collider.com

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• We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Time, Memories

  1841 Journal entry, 19 Feb.

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• Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

  Juan Gabriel

  Illusion Of Control, Illusion, Pernicious

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• Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

  Walt Disney

  Influence, Young, Objectives

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• The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.

  Dillon Lane

  Growing Up, Kids, Cooking

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• As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

  Jim Henson

  Children, Believe, Imagination

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.49, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Giving, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

  Bill Watterson

  Growing Up, Thinking, Ads

  "The Revenge of the Baby-Sat". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1991.

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• Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

  Natalie Angier

  Party, Eggs, Needs

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Can you remember when you didn't want to sleep? Isn't it inconceivable? I guess the definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

  Paula Poundstone

  Sleep, Definitions, Want

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• I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

  Vera Farmiga

  Simple, Childhood, Tragedy

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  America, Massachusetts, Firsts

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