Childhood Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

  Simon Callow

  Facts, Influence, Bigs

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• I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.

  Tre Cool

  Mean, Normal

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• Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

  David Sobel

  Nature, World, Action

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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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• I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

  Andy Dick

  Pain, Thinking, Laughing

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

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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 concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, France, Influence

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• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, War, Men

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.

  Faith Evans

  Religious, School, Grandparent

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

  Michael Jackson

  Family, Fate, Known

  Song: Childhood, 1995

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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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• When you get into this business you have to grow up quickly. But I wouldn't say I've lost any of my childhood, I've always been a mature child. My Mom says I've been like that since I was little kid. I make time for my friends and I make time for things that other kids do. This is a business and I knew what I was getting into. I make time for being a kid, but I also know when to put on my business hat and go for the business.

  Aaliyah

  Mom, Growing Up, Business

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• If you want to say how can we step into childhood and make it better for them, I would start at the activity level. I'd like to say let your kids go out and play.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Kids, Play

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.

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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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• I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

  Tom Hooper

  Thinking, People, Thumbs

  "Filmmaker Tom Hooper". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 28, 2011.

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• My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

  Rebecca Hall

  Good Friend, Parent, Secret

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

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Doing What You Want

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• I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

  Maureen Forrester

  Years, Wonderful, Year One

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• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  Rachel Dratch

  Dream, Snl, Wanted

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• Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Self, Should Have

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, People, Events

  "I Am a Camera: An Interview with Rachel Kushner" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

  Toby Jones

  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

  Michelle Forbes

  Fruit, My Favorite, Pears

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