Childhood Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

  Anthony Shadid

  Thinking, Twisted, Better Off

  "Interrogating the NY Times’ Anthony Shadid". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2012.

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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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• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

  Valorie Curry

  Mother, College, Class

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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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• 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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• There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Memories, Verdict, Consequence

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.59, Open Road Media

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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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• My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

  Grant Gustin

  Dream, Mad, Tvs

  Interview with Rae Votta, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Kids, Names

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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, Tragedy, Clean

  "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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• I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

  Ben Stiller

  Home, Parent, Balls

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers

  John Travolta

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Choices, My Birthday, Events

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Education, Memories

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

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• Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.

  Woody Allen

  Idols, Sunrise, Mixing

  "Woody chooses music over film", www.cnn.com. August 28, 2001.

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• Maintain a childhood enthusiasm for the game of golf.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Golf, Games, Enthusiasm

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• There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

  Samuel Lover

  Motherhood, Voice, Tone

  Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.14

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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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• Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Stuff, Language

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