Childhood Quotes - Page 17

• A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

  Tea Obreht

  Book, Writing, Want

  "Conversation: Tea Obreht, Author of ‘The Tiger’s Wife’". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. April 1, 2011.

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• There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

  Dave Foley

  Malls

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• Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Mother, Class, Years

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• My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, School, Nightmare

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• I look back to a happy childhood.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Looks, Happy Childhood

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.20, Wakefield Press

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• There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Wall, Light

  Vlada Petrić, Ingmar Bergman (1981). “Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman”, Redgrave Publishing Company

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• In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Artist, Twenties, Your Children

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• I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Years, Chaos, Enough

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• You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

  Michael K. Williams

  Use, Knows, Colorful

  "All in the Game". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2011.

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• I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

  Aisha Tyler

  Levels, Lows, Low Level

  Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Kids, Emotional

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• When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

  Jim Woodring

  Kids, Feelings, Perception

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• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  Lee Westwood

  Dad, Winning, Nuts

  "Lee Westwood: the secret toughness of a natural No1". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Interesting, Understanding, Would Be

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• Stand By Me' was really great for me and my buddies; we'd all watch that together because that was us - we were down in the creek and hanging out every day and going on little adventures. I had about sixteen friends who are all about the same age as me and lived in a three-block radius. We spent our entire childhood down in that creek.

  Scoot McNairy

  Block, Adventure, Stand By Me

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• I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end.

  Colin Thompson

  Thinking, Magic, Ends

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• 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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• You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.

  Mike Lookinland

  Children, Trying, Should

  "‘Brady Bunch’ Star Mike Lookinland On Fame, Alcoholism And His Surprising New Career". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2013.

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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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• I had a very happy childhood.

  Juan Antonio Bayona

  Very Happy

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn’t really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  Rainey Qualley

  Mom, Art, Two

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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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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