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Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children - therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

Hope Children People Generation Feel

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

Christopher Moore

Time Think Generation Young Kind

I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.

Generation Surprise You Up Film He

The original 'Star Trek' series is the classic one. Its successor, 'The Next Generation,' is less lovable, but at its best, it's smarter.

Best Generation Classic Next Star

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

Funny Yourself Parents Generation

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

Education Me Generation Go Important

If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.

Think Generation Help Accomplish

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

Generation Pool Never See Big Get

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.

Influence Strong Generation Values

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Christie Hefner

Generation Up Sexuality Well Our

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

Generation Electricity Look Edge See

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Children Generation New Islam Spirit

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

Generation Want Beyond Skating Hawk

None of Girls' Generation would be possible without the fans.

Generation Possible Without Fans

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Experience Memory Generation Living

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

Future People Generation You Look

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

John Dos Passos

Work World Generation Better View

Our nation was founded with a bunch of founding legislators who joined together to move our country out of the blocks and get us started, and every generation since then has found a way to advance the ball down the field.

Together Generation Down Country Way

The problem with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn't sustain an R.

Guillermo del Toro

Generation Problem Trying Dark Young

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai Stevenson I

Wisdom Generation Height Absurdity

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

People Generation Stock Market Lost

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

Thinking Generation Appreciated Took

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

Book Generation Problem Professional

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

Me Generation Nice Touch Younger

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