Childhood Quotes - Page 15

• I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

  Anita Diament

  Mother, Garden, Forever

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• I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Play, People, Greek

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• I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Football, Family Love, Games

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• There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

  Edward Hoagland

  Periods

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• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Children, Growing Up, Memories

  "Composer Abel Korzeniowski on Sundance, Scores, Career". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. February 5, 2013.

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• My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

  Booboo Stewart

  Real, Names, Two

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

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• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Lonely, Children, Loneliness

  "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Struggle, May, Gestures

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• You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

  Anthony Doerr

  Waiting, Here And There, Your Children

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• Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

  John Mortimer

  Children, People, Age

  John Mortimer (1995). “Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life”

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Health, Acting, Disease

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• Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Philosophy, Blow

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• A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood. These are big subjects, big subjects. You can't balk at work like that. As an actor, that's as good as it gets.

  Robert Carlyle

  Character, Play, Good As It Gets

  "This is as good as it gets" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2008.

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• I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.

  Olivia Colman

  Children, Dark, Offering

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• Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Years, Type

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• I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

  Susan Cain

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.

  Tim Conway

  Miserable, Folks, Materials

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• Even if you've gone through an average childhood, you have girlfriends who get pregnant and then have to choose whether or not to have a child. And this stuff certainly makes you think about what you're taking on. I certainly want to have children, but I could never do it until I felt I loved myself enough, and wanted to bring someone into the world because I had some kind of security.

  Laura Dern

  Girlfriend, Children, Thinking

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• My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

  Stanley Donen

  Long, Southern, Stories

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• You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

  Emma Donoghue

  Unhappy Childhood, Said, Very Happy

  "Emma Donoghue: the books interview". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

  Paul Feig

  Sex, Fun, School

  "Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5)". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I have a painter's memory. I can remember things from my childhood which were so powerfully imprinted on me, the whole scene comes back.

  Paula Fox

  Memories, Remember, Scene

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• I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

  Troy Garity

  Art, Fun, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Vaccines, Dollars, Cost

  "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

  Jennifer Egan

  Summer, Father, Taken

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