#childhood

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life. ↗

— Howie Mandel

#basically #childhood #children #down #funny

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ↗

— Alice Miller

#another #believe #childhood #difficult #does

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought. ↗

— Alice Miller

#been #childhood #confusion #disputed #most

I'd had a rough childhood. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#had #i #rough

I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#been #big #career #childhood #constantly

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#great #had #i #looks #paper

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates. ↗

— Gary Numan

#bit #childhood #could #different #had

It's funny how when you're little, you miss all the little lies. They float right past you, but you don't wonder about them much. For a long time, you think this is just something adults still do after being kids - pretend. Then one day you wake up and realize most of the world you're in is built on someone's make-believe. ↗

— V.C. Andrews

#funny