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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was agile like Spider-Man and everything we do that draws on the childhood inspirations and the adulthood inspirations, for that matter. They're definitely the reason how I am, how I am today, because I was a smaller kid who was a nerd.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I spent my whole childhood diving out of haylofts with my BB gun and coming out shooting.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
- Depeche
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.
- Chronological
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- Nov 07, 2020
There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.
- Bane
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- Nov 07, 2020
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a very normal stable background and had an amazing childhood, and I haven't got any complaints really.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood bedroom - if childhood could be about ten years old - had a bed which was under windows which faced north. At about age 10, I started watching the stars just move through the night.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this dream of directing. But as a child, I wanted to become a wrestler. Like, in childhood, we used to watch WWF; I was inspired by all of that. One of my favourite wrestlers was Rock, who has become an actor.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since childhood, I have wanted to become Miss Universe India, and I did. I am so grateful to God for that.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent so long and so much of my childhood holding myself back for fear of what people would think. I'm trying my best every day to throw that away.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.
- Happy Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My folks still live in my childhood home, and so when I'm home with them, I usually feel the best.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of your favourite fairy tales from childhood. Storybook pages abound with all manner of magic: fantastical fairies, wish-granting genies, or even a certain boy wizard.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong. However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we'd get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I'd hold in my nose is of mother's vegetable soup.
- Braves
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was traded from the Oakland A's to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, and Boston to learn about America's history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my childhood and relationship with family - which had felt like another lifetime - into the present.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood wasn't full of wonderful culinary memories.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my awkward phase corresponded to an interest in rock n' roll. From experience, I'm guessing an insecure childhood is probably quite a common thing among people who start a rock band.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brother and I spent our childhood in movie theaters screaming. I decided early on that that was the epitome of entertainment. I'm always trying for that same level of adrenaline in my books.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020