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Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception. Mark Lester
Become Few Jodie Foster Exception Adult Never Child Child Actors Going Apart Really Works Foster Actor
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. Mark Leyner
Life Myself Thought Anarchist Kind Adult Adult Life Days Whole
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting. Mark Ruffalo
Life Time Me Speak Mother Wind My Life Guide Say Would One Time Tried Adult Never Had She Said Caught Quit Any Again Really Acting Career
I think it's a mistake to think, 'Am I going to write a young adult book, or do I desperately want to write a book for adults?' I think the better ambition is to try to write someone's favorite book, because those categorizations of adult, young adult, become kind of superfluous. Markus Zusak
Mistake Book Better Try Become Ambition Young Think Desperately Those Favorite Kind Superfluous Someone Write Adult Because Am Going Young Adult Want
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. Martha Beck
Life People Revolution Only Small Small Children Adult Since Most Industrial Industrial Revolution Without Making Been Left Children Places Worked Help Multiple Homes Away Raise
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. Martha Beck
Old Young Assume Responsibilities Adult Feel Children Who
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be. Martha Wainwright
Mother Thought Become Kind Would Something Adult Never Had Died Ever
Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors. Martin Kove
Bullying Business Distribution Colors Adult Over Exhibition Bullies Bully Different Movie Movie Business Production Certainly Whole Set
If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems. Martin Seligman
Work You Problems Nice Changes Lasts Evidence Reliving Only Gives Point Adult Days Hours Cure Childhood Movement
I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Problems Face Difficult Think Thinking Everybody Insecurities About Having Adult Becoming Up Your
If I'm in an unusual or extreme social environment, I always want to know what it's like to grow up there and experience it as normal, everyday life. And I want to know what sort of adults these children are going to turn into. Mary Ellen Mark
Life Experience Everyday Life Everyday Extreme Adult Environment Like Know Sort Unusual Always Normal Up Going Children Want Social Turn Grow Grow Up
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails. Mary Oliver
Bicycle Young Gone Entirely Adult Most Trails Walked Child Young Adult Woods Loved Full Recently
Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table. Matt Bevin
Food Welcome Noise People Rude Dinner Sit Everybody Kids Table Throw Adult Come Like Make Going Children Want Act Who Interrupt
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult. Matt Groening
Considered Adult Stuff Liked Goofy Also Still Child Serious Found Play
'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing. Matt Groening
Great Family Amazing Other Projects Cartoon Unbelievable Guy Network Various Park Adult Stuff Great Stuff South South Park Family Guy Swim
Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect. Matt Smith
Love You Respect Doctor Fear Remember Way Kids Some Fondly Adult Part Feel Doctor Who Talked Sort Were Controlled Afraid Being Being Afraid Should Reason Who Appreciate
I read 'The Hobbit' only when I was an adult. I had a lot of friends, teenagers, who discovered reading through 'The Hobbit,' but it wasn't something that I discovered until later in life. Matthew Reilly
Life Reading Teenagers Later Something Only Through Adult Had Until Read Discovered Lot Friends Hobbit Who
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. Matthew Tobin Anderson
Book Believe Teens Kind Adult Insulting Than Different Different Kind Should
It's simply that older adults don't seem to be able to generate sleep efficiently, and that's why they're not getting it. Matthew Walker
Older Able Seem Adult Generate Simply Efficiently Getting Why Sleep
To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time. Maurice Sendak
Time You Trust Tell Lies Adult Tales Know Because Very Child Get May Used Hard Hard Thing Believing Thing
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up. Maurice Sendak
Life Work Me Live Gave Secret Frank Critical My Friend Purpose Could Adult Anne Make Because Vulnerable Were Friend Up Die Children Wanted Them Grow Grow Up
I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine. Maximillian Degenerez
Me Brainy Minds Mine Struck Simpler Adult Never Knew Because Felt Always Were Than Child Children Wanted Much Whose Among Belonged
Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others. Maya Hawke
You Become Doors Every Others Some Absent Adult Open Make Close Childhood Just Then Choice Choices Your Whole
I'm generally intimidated by adults. Mayim Bialik
Intimidated Adult Generally
I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid. Mayim Bialik
People Better Kid Those Adult Makes Than Did
I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place. Meg Rosoff
Distance Critical About Write Adult Sure America Same Either Place Reason
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