Quotes with adult

  • When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
  • As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
  • For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
  • It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
  • There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
  • If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
  • Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
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  • Thomas Szasz A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • George Orwell Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Plympton America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Bryan Batt As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Franz Grillparzer As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Baz Luhrmann At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Cameron Diaz Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
    Cameron Diaz
    American actress, author, producer, and model (1972 - )
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Norman Podhoretz Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
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  • Buddy Wakefield Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Griffith Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • C. Thomas Howell Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
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