- Nov 07, 2020
Toys Quotes
Words that remember what it felt like to play.
These lines treat toys as more than objects - they're stand-ins for memory, resourcefulness, and wonder. One speaker still owns childhood figures decades later, another compares a film set to the biggest toy box a kid could imagine, and a third recalls making toys simply because there was no money to buy them. Explore more of that feeling in Childhood.
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.
- Child
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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.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
- Boat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty skeptical about a lot of the toys on the market, especially for young kids. Most of them just add these new technologies just to make more flashing lights.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our family, my brothers and I shared toys. In other words, just because it was mine didn't mean my brothers and I didn't play with it.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020