Young Age Quotes - Page 16

• I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

  Josh Gad

  Mother, Powerful, Sadness

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• Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

  Sara Blakely

  Trying, Age, Want

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• I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Accomplishment, Age

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• With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Age, Fame, Stressful

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. May 06, 1998.

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• I had to deal with death at a really young age.

  Emmanuelle Chriqui

  Age, Dealing With Death, Young

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Country, Moving, Games

  "Search Slap Shot SEARCH Bad Boys: Jaromir Jagr on Sean Avery and John Grahame". slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com. December 15, 2008.

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• You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Jobs, Disappointment, Thinking

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• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  Fran Kranz

  Becoming One, People, Age

  "Interview with Fran Kranz, Star, CBS’s Welcome to the Captain". Interview with Alex Remington, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2008.

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• I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

  Archie Panjabi

  Children, Careers, Parent

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

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• I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

  Jim Parsons

  College, Class, Age

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

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• Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.

  James Rollins

  Real, Writing, Son

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• I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

  Melissa Rauch

  Art, School, Age

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

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• Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more in-depth way than most kids that loved movies at that time. I'd find a filmmaker or something and want to see all his movies.

  Danny Strong

  Kids, Eight, Age

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• Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Communication, School, Technology

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• From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.

  Olivia Williams

  Fun, Worry, Age

  "Portrait of the Artist: Olivia Williams, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I was introduced to soul music at a very young age - my mom was a soul singer.

  Elliott Yamin

  Mom, Soul, Age

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  Faith Prince

  Dad, Personality, Age

  "BRIDGING TV & THEATRE: Faith Prince & DROP DEAD DIVA - Plus Laurents, Robbins, MAME, GYPSY & More!". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. August 14, 2011.

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• A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

  Janet Jackson

  Children, Growing Up, Silly

  "I've finished talking about Michael. I've done it all my career" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  Lara Pulver

  Mom, People, Laughing

  "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Car, Luck

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• I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Age, Body, Shapes

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• What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of thought agree with the regularities found in the succession of impressions we receive from the external world, that it is thus possible for the human being to gain enlightenment regarding these regularities by means of pure thought

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Law

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• Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Age, Tvs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  Kate Bush

  Brother, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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