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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
When I was a child, I wanted to be... a fairy. I still do, really, except that now I've now graduated to wanting to be a pixie.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taken to court for trying to travel on a child ticket to Glastonbury '97. I was, and still am, 6 ft. 5.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a Manchester United supporter since I was a child, so that won't change.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
- First Of All
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
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- Nov 07, 2020