- Loving
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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
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.
- Playground
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
- Minds
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a choice in life and got pregnant and had a child, and I want to put my child first.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
- Film Sets
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realise my upbringing was unusual until my teens. As the child of two actors, I presumed that visiting film sets and being surrounded by colourful characters was normal.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.
- Journal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020