#owing

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

I like throwing snowballs at small children. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#i #like #small #small children #throwing

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#could #cult #following #goodnight #huge

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#characters #come #creating #how #i

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way. ↗

— Allen Iverson

#growing up #had #hard #hard way #i

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. ↗

— Washington Irving

#greatest #growing #learning #more #simplest

I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he had a great record collection. He had - it was all - these were the songs. So I heard a lot of these songs, like, my whole life, so for me it was easy. I already knew what I was going to sing. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#already #collection #dad #easy #going

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they're the best songs ever. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#classics #dad #domino #ever #fats

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#charming #doing #doing good #feel #good