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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
Football in Italy is like a wonderful sickness, because people are infected with this love for the sport from childhood to old age.
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
I had a fairly regular childhood. I was a pretty boring kid. I didn't do much. I was always thinking, but I didn't really say a lot.
I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving parents.
The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
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.
Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.
I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.
When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy
Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.
I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.
My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.
My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.
I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.
William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.
At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.
No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.
Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.