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• I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Eight, Twenties, Length

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Trust, Eight

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

  Emmy Rossum

  Daughter, Mother, Girlfriend

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• On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

  Nigella Lawson

  Christmas, Children, Literature

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Book, Silence, Sound

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• To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Research

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

  Nikki Sixx

  Teenager, Trying, Resentment

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• Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Teenager, Literature

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• In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Life, Literature, Single Women

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• Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

  Bobby McFerrin

  Life, Children, Responsibility

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• Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

  Douglas Coupland

  Eye, Clown, Contact

  "Douglas Coupland" by Johnny Dee, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Thinking, Literature

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• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Ukulele, Today, Firsts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• A good book written for children can be read by adults

  Norton Juster

  Children, Book, Written

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• Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

  Virginia Foxx

  Cells, Form, Stem Cell

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• I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Taken, Acting, World

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• What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Rights, Differences, Different

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

  Thomas Szasz

  Family, Children, Maturity

  The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

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• I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

  Andrew Wiles

  Dream, Childhood, Able

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

  Brian Aldiss

  Life, Kids, Unhappy Childhood

  "Billion Year Spree : The History of Science Fiction". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1973.

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• Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Inspiration, Asking, Philosopher

  "The Listener" Magazine, 1978.

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• We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

  Herb Brooks

  Dream, Kids, Sophisticated

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• I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, States, Perversion

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