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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020