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I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
Jeff Kinney
Government
Me
Writing
Mother
Father
Typical
Pentagon
About
Had
Because
Educator
Normal
Very
Upbringing
American
Childhood
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Average
Worked
Helped
Things
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
Jeff Kinney
Myself
Sports
Try
Books
Way
Possibly
Write
Divorce
Environments
Like
Make
Childhood
Being
Fiction
Soccer
Much
Team
Many
Swim
Season
Things
Playing
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Jeffrey Kluger
Autism
Else
Symptoms
Emerge
More
Studies
Soon
Developmental
Calendar
Understandable
Exhaustive
Repeated
Than
Child
Gets
Childhood
After
Anything
Stages
Anything Else
Apparent
Shown
Coincidence
I think I was affected quite a bit by musical and creative influences that go all the way back to my childhood.
Jeffrey Osborne
Creative
Think
Back
Musical
Way
Bit
Go
Affected
Quite
Quite A Bit
Childhood
Influences
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
Jeffrey Zeldman
Love
Wise
Women
Daughter
About
Both
She
Issues
Mature
Discussing
Childhood
Stories
Loves
There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down.
Jemima Khan
Down
Teen
Settle
Strikes
About
Winona Ryder
Remained
Never
Development
Ready
Arrest
Pills
George
George Clooney
Fame
Clooney
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Quite
Suspended
Childhood
Theory
Moment
Who
Enjoying
I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.
Jennifer Egan
Me
Father
Fire
Every
Digging
Back
Summer
Visit
Out
Minute
Outsider
Taken
Until
Yard
Always
Came
Escape
Childhood
Buried
Loved
Sand
Then
Away
Treasure
Pulling
I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.
Jennifer Egan
Never
Invisible
Did
Childhood
Anything
Original
Whole
I often felt like that Mr. Magoo figure in the cartoon, who just wanders through traffic, and somehow it never hits him. I kind of feel that way about my whole childhood: Why do I have a normal life?
Jennifer Egan
Life
Way
Kind
Cartoon
About
Somehow
Through
Never
Feel
Like
Him
Felt
Traffic
Normal
Normal Life
Hits
Often
Childhood
Just
Figure
Who
Whole
Why
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
Jennifer Lee
First
Restaurants
Obsessed
Like
Am
Discovered
American
Childhood
Chinese
Them
Many
Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.
Jennifer Nettles
Love
College
Right Thing
Definitely
Television
Entertain
Would
Something
Through
Participating
Along
Course
Came
Goes
Childhood
As Far As
The Right Thing
Theater
Movies
Far
Even
Right
Thing
Enjoyed
I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.
Jenova Chen
Life
My Life
Changed
Relationships
Defined
Something
Cherished
Up
Friends
Childhood
Grew
Social
Really
Games
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
Jeremy Sisto
You
Complexity
Out
Through
Make
Dealt
Lot
Any
Childhood
Artists
Your
Trauma
Twenties
Why
Amount
I had a lot of chaos in my very early years before I was old enough to know what was going on, and then I just skated through the rest of my childhood without dealing with it.
Jeremy Sisto
Old
Rest
Before
Early Years
Enough
Chaos
Through
Had
Know
Without
Dealing
Years
Lot
Very
Going
Childhood
Just
Skated
Old Enough
Then
Early
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
Jerry Doyle
Today
Cancer
Enemies
Poverty
AIDS
Parkinson
Childhood
Common
Muscular
My love of literature goes back to my childhood.
Jerry Hall
Love
Back
Goes
Childhood
Literature
The new album is a childhood dream come true. Got to sing with Ronnie Spector, got to cover a bunch of songs that were influential in drawing a line between the punk form and original rock and roll.
Jerry Only
Punk
Drawing
Dream
Songs
True
Between
New
Come
Sing
Rock
Got
Rock And Roll
Cover
Line
Were
Bunch
Roll
Childhood
Childhood Dream
Form
Influential
Ronnie
Original
Album
Spector
When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us.
Jesse Ball
Great
Me
Mother
Father
Looking
Few
Alice
Several
Favorite
Out
Would
Brother
Through
Weeks
He
Glass
Over
Read
Course
Were
Loud
Times
Child
Wonderland
Childhood
Us
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
Class
School
Relatively
High
High School
Small
Take
Students
Had
Until
Around
Normal
Normal Childhood
Off
Very
Childhood
Graduating
Public
Turned
Lived
Things
Started
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.
Jesse Metcalfe
Relatively
Had
Childhood
Tumultuous
Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
Jesse Williams
Big
Imagination
Adolescence
Part
Always
Were
Big Part
Childhood
I had an amazing childhood and always loved to sing and dance, but there were moments where I had ups and downs with my health that often tested me as it does many people. I've never hidden the fact that my health was sometimes not on my side, but I've never let it define me or deter me from my dreams.
Jessie J
Dreams
Health
Me
People
Sometimes
Amazing
Ups And Downs
Dance
Side
Define
Hidden
Deter
Fact
Never
Had
Sing
Does
Always
Tested
Were
Often
Childhood
Ups
Where
Loved
Many
Moments
Downs
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
Jidenna
Beautiful
Memories
Challenges
Independence
Faced
Since
Also
Majority
Childhood
Childhood Memories
Experienced
While
Nigeria
My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spent in Chicago at the Annoyance Theatre.
Jill Soloway
Time
Together
Theatre
Sister
Incredibly
Spent
Through
Annoyance
Chicago
Close
Childhood
Created
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
Bible
Thought
Main
Main Source
Stuff
Mostly
Faith-Based
Source
Childhood
Much
Theological
Exposure
A lot of my stand-up early on was stories from my childhood. And my childhood is over - there's not new childhood stories to come. They've all been mentioned.
Jim Jefferies
Mentioned
Over
New
Come
Been
Lot
Childhood
Stories
Early
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