Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.
Alexandra Adornetto
ChildhoodAmazingTryingYouPlace
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
Maeve Binchy
MarriageChildhoodWomanI AmHappy
My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.
Jim Butcher
ChildhoodBibleThoughtSourceStuff
I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.
Dido Armstrong
ChildhoodDecisionsMy OwnOutside
From childhood on, both males and females learn to do whatever we need to do to get the attention we need to survive. We fashion ourselves accordingly. And then, should that attention ever go away, it's only natural to do the same things we've always done, rely on what we've always relied on, in order to make it come back.
Justine Musk
ChildhoodFashionSurviveLearnBack
Ishmael Beah was born and spent his childhood in Sierra Leone as that sad but beautiful West African country was ravaged by a civil war that left some 50,000 dead between 1991 and 2002. He was a child soldier for a while, then, through extraordinary circumstances, was set free of that life.
Carolyn See
LifeSadBeautifulChildhoodWar
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.
Tracy Morgan
BestChildhoodToughStoryUnique
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
Peter Straub
GreatTimeChildhoodYouPossible
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
Alan Huffman
FamilyExperienceChildhoodMy Own
I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
Laura Dern
GreatChildhoodMomSummerBecome
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
Jidenna
MemoriesBeautifulChildhoodMajority
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
Derek Walcott
GoodFatherMotherAgeChildhood
A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.
Junior Seau
ChildrenChildhoodYouPerfectLook
Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.
Aisha Tyler
GoodLiveChildhoodParentsBlack
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
Tommy Rettig
ChildhoodRelationshipsNormalWanted
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
Penn Badgley
ChildhoodChildYouPlaceKnowKind
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.
Will Hobbs
ChildhoodStoryInspireSometimes
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
Lance Armstrong
ChildhoodProblemTideObesityGoing
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.
Jesse McCartney
ChildhoodSchoolSmallHigh School
Since childhood, I have been watching the Filmfare Awards, and it has always been very special to anyone who works in the film industry.
Dhanush
ChildhoodSpecialAwardsWatching
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
Julian Cope
DayChildhoodMeSickThinkingBad
While shooting for 'Kaatru Veliyidai,' I was living my childhood dream of working with my favourite director. It was surreal and thrilling at the same time.
Aditi Rao Hydari
TimeChildhoodDreamLivingDirector
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
Robert B. Laughlin
HomeChildhoodCottonFieldsWheat
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
Paul Thomas Anderson
ChildhoodRememberLongI CanMovies
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