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I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
Carol Ann Duffy
Life
Mother
My Life
Always
Child
Being
Wanted
Central
Thing
Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.
Carol Ann Duffy
You
Own
Back
Those
Hidden
Having
Had
Takes
Parts
Child
Childhood
Your
Away
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy
World
Hundred
Some
Child
Labour
May
Children
Form
Estimated
Exploitative
Fifty
Engaged
Million
Two
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
Carol Leifer
People
Father
King
Holding
Attention
Him
Impressed
Child
Watching
Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
Carol S. Dweck
Success
Good
Failure
Natural
Intelligence
Control
Recipe
Responding
Out
See
Variable
Gives
Takes
Emphasizing
Come
Provides
Effort
Child
Themselves
What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.
Carol S. Dweck
You
Challenges
Later
Mindset
More
Proportion
Stuck
Welcomed
Likely
Greater
Praise
Were
Years
Label
Malleable
Five
Child
Traits
Process
Found
I went to Tokyo when I was a child, but there's still so much of the country I'd like to explore.
Caroline Flack
Country
Like
Still
Child
Much
Explore
Tokyo
I was a bit of a sickly child!
Caroline Flack
Sickly
Bit
Child
When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
Caroline Kennedy
Sad
God
You
Wonderful
Losing
Somebody
Own
Nice
Everybody
Something
My Own
Having
Poetry
Fact
Through
Sad Thing
Reminder
Feel
Like
Dealing
Huge
Overwhelmed
Child
Huge Thing
Wonderful Thing
Goes
Going
Often
Oh
Oh My God
In Fact
Experiences
Whether
Thing
Universal
Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.
Caroll Spinney
Bird
Big
Learned
Child
Based
It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
Carolyn Murphy
Barefoot
Birth
Gave
Once
Run
Easy
Costa Rica
Oblivion
Oblivious
Obvious
Around
Child
Want
Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
Carolyn Murphy
Work
You
People
Job
Made
Having
Clear
Longer
Priority
Very
Child
Decided
Grounded
Keeps
I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.
Carrie Coon
Diplomatic
Pretty
Child
Middle
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
Carrie Coon
Time
Myself
Parents
Dancing
Claim
Thoughtful
Bossy
Observant
Idea
Loud
Contradict
Quiet
Child
Which
'Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On' was my anthem as a child. It was about me. I was Baby.
Carrie Underwood
Me
Baby
About
Got
Anthem
Child
Blue
Blue Jeans
Jeans
Her
I think when I was pregnant with my first child - he's about 10 or 11 now - I first noticed changes in my skin, which can make you panic a bit. I had a bit of melasma.
Cate Blanchett
You
First
Skin
Think
Changes
Panic
Bit
About
Had
He
First Child
Make
Child
Which
Pregnant
Noticed
Now
As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.
Caterina Fake
Day
Heart
Recite
Hundreds
Poems
Learned
Child
Which
I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
Catherine Hardwicke
Hope
You
Creativity
Lose
Holding
Think
Ways
Sedentary
Inside
Spontaneity
Cliche
Lot
Up
Child
Get
Artists
Want
Holding On
Your
Grown
Grown-Up
Set
As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.
Catherine Hicks
Loneliness
Monroe
Way
Embrace
Able
Only
Only Child
Well
Understand
Real
Very
Child
Hollywood
Helped
Her
Portray
Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
Catherine Tate
Work
Will
Job
Looking
Whatever
Say
Schedule
Absolutely
Never
Child
Going
After
Asked
Hard
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.
Catherine Tate
Bit
Also
Although
Child
Flamboyant
Shy
I'm an only child, and I'm very, very close with my parents, who actually live in Australia.
Catriona Gray
Parents
Live
Only
Only Child
Australia
Very
Close
Child
Who
Actually
I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.
Catriona Gray
School
High
High School
Talkative
Became
Very
Quiet
Child
Grade
Quite
Just
Shy
I love working with children because, as an only child, I grew up always wishing for siblings.
Catriona Gray
Love
Only
Only Child
Wishing
Because
Always
Up
Child
Children
Grew
Working
Sibling
I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.
Cecelia Ahern
Life
World
Sometimes
Think
Absolutely
Weird
Feel
Like
Very
Child
Quite
Often
Just
I was lucky enough to grow up in a house where we listened to all kinds of music. We listened to Haitian, hip hop, soul, classical jazz, gospel and Cuban music, to name a few. When you have access to that as a child, it just opens up your world.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Music
You
Soul
World
Few
Jazz
Enough
Hop
Kinds
Classical
Name
Haitian
Opens
House
Cuban
Gospel
Access
Hip
Hip-Hop
Up
Child
Listened
Just
Where
Your
Lucky
Grow
Grow Up
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