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- Nov 07, 2020
Child Quotes
On childhood, creativity, and growing up.
Some quotes treat a creative project as being as demanding as raising a child; others come from adults looking back at being teased, being an only child, or noticing how plainly children can speak the truth. Childhood extends that memory.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Divisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human divisions would be child's play for any reasonably competent alien overlord to exploit - check the masterful 'Twilight Zone' episode 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street' for an example of how that might play out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's odd for me to compare my stuff to Lee Child's, because I'm such of fan of his, and also because it's curiously something I never did until I kept hearing about our protagonists' similarities.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started horse-riding when I was a child and still try to go as often as I can.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been following a vegan diet now since the 1980s, and find it not only healthier, but also much more attractive than the chunks of meat that were on my plate as a child.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
- Oh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020