#childhood

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange. ↗

— Charley Pride

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How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#determined #early #early childhood #failure #handles

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#bit #childhood #fact #first #five

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women. ↗

— Oscar de la Renta

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You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

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I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. ↗

— Paul Reubens

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Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

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I had a picture-perfect childhood. ↗

— Kelly Ripa

#had #i

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#between #childhoods #extremists #get #got

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#abstract art #ambiguities #art #childhood #cubism