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“When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.”

Kids Strong Wonder Identity Wholeness Sense Of Wonder

“When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that. I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!”

Thinking World Trying Art Care Kids Attitude Share Organize Insecure Narcissistic

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.”

Thinking Kids Stars Universal Appeals Maturity Entertaining

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.”

Care Kids Slips Riding Bike Slides Riding Your Bike

Author:Pauly Shore

“When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.”

Thinking World Want Children Reality Kids Film Life Is Stars Sides Four Our Children Film Stars

Author:Rob Brydon

“When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.”

Ifs Hard Kids Secret

Author:Karen Russell

“When you're a kid, Kermit is Tom Hanks. He's Tom Hanks for kids or Jimmy Stewart for kids. He's truly the every man.”

Men Kids Every Man Toms Jimmy Jimmy Stewart

Author:Jason Segel

“When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.”

Knows Mean Feelings Kids Grows Loses Growing Up Wonderful Pure Nine Memorable Relevance Luster

Author:Corey Taylor

“When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.”

Thinking Men Kids Grows Growing Up Forty Old Man

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.”

Knows Years Said Kids Games Fun Shapes Balls Bats They Said Gloves Getting In Shape

Author:Eddie Mathews

“When you're a kid, you always feel you have this weird kindred-spirit thing with other Jews, until you get older and you realize it's just middle-class bourgeois Jews that sort of fit a template that your family fits into one way or another.”

Way Feels Kids Spirit Realizing Class Middle Fit Jew One Way Our Family Middle Class Bourgeois Kindred Kindred Spirit

Author:Marc Maron

“When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.”

Want Kids

Author:Rebel Wilson

“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?”

Ends Stories Problem Happens Kids Grows Realizing Growing Up Imagine Adults Weak Exciting Things Happen Disappointed Compelling Mundane Exciting Things Muggles Mundane Life

Author:Paul Waldman

“When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.”

Feels Ideas Dream Bigs Kids Differences Like You Making A Difference Making Changes Big Ideas

Author:AnnaSophia Robb

“When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."”

Ifs Want Feelings Kids Realizing Cutting Like You Mortality Indestructible Time Goes By

Author:David Johansen

“When you're a kid, you just have no concept of anything other than what you're doing.”

Kids

Author:Sean Astin

“When you're a kid, you listen to what your family is listening to. For my family, it was bluegrass.”

Kids Listening My Family Our Family Bluegrass

Author:Sara Watkins

“When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes. That's when survival instincts kick in.”

Kids Age Certain Fighting Worry Goes On Survival Instinct Trials Kicks Toes Tribulation Survival Instinct Trials And Tribulations Carefree No Worries

Author:Jay Rock

“When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.”

Kids Young Reading Parent Newspapers There Comes A Time

Author:Fred Durst

“When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"”

Thinking Kids Waiting Window Okay

Author:Ralph Lauren

“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.”

Thinking Wells Different Kids Grows Growing Up Wife Shapes Exciting Grandkids

Author:Guy Branum

“When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.”

Want Kids Millionaire Shortstops

Author:Rickey Henderson

“When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.”

Way Doe Seems Actors Roles Like You Directors Mood Tone

Author:Kit Harington

“When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.”

Ifs Way Needs Persons Enough Moral Figures Smart Lows Being True Explanation Justify Liars Fortitude You Re A Liar

Author:Samuel Witwer

“When you're a little bit dumb and naive things get done that no one believed could be done.”

Littles Done Bits Little Bit Dumb Naive

Author:John Peterman

“When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.”

Different Effort Fit Perseverance Teamwork

Author:Julie Payette

“When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.”

Knows Littles Kids Parent Teach Growing Up Growing Discipline Little Kid Kids Growing Up

Author:Robert Knepper

“When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.”

Littles Kids Life Is Horse Desert Little Kid Arabian

Author:Janet Fitch

“When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.”

Trying Mind Littles Facts Kids Black Issues Color Friends My Friends Hip Hop Rap Teenager Little Kid

Author:Eminem

“When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.”

Thinking Should Littles Art Kids Fun Challenges College Smart Lows Little Kid Make You Happy Being Smart High Art

Author:Patrick Stump

“When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.”

Want Littles Play Kids Can Do Balls Defense Little Kid Do Whatever You Want

Author:Champ Bailey

“When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.”

Heart Littles Kids Youth Harsh Little Kid Harsh Words

Author:Garrison Keillor

“When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.”

Littles Normal Aspire

Author:Neil Harbisson

“When you're a man you try and be macho.”

Men Trying Macho

Author:Frank Bruno

“When you're a man, you're often in situations where you have to decide how far you're going to go in an argument. How big is the other guy? All this stuff that girls don't have to worry about as much, because that's not part of the equation.”

Men Guy Girl Situation Worry Argument Other Guys That Girl

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.”

Ifs Problem Government Might Blame Queens Federal Government Mayors

Author:Jean Chretien

“When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.”

Writing Pay Lists

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.”

People Children Care Three Deals Mom Bother Who Cares Trust Me

Author:Faith Hill

“When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.”

Doors Mom Weather Cupboards

Author:Kristin Hannah

Source: Fly Away

“When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.”

Monsters

Author:Kristin Cashore

“When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.”

Way Children Different Sometimes Mother Our Children Luxury Your Children Different Ways Hens

Author:Charlotte Knobloch

“When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.”

Young Stars Lovers Fighter Movie Star Playing Someone

Author:Michael Caine

“When you're a music director, you have people constantly sending you music and trying to get - I mean, I'm sure you have the exact same thing when you do a magazine - that you have people constantly wanting to get your attention. And I think I learnt a lot from being on that end of things, when I was trying to book the tour, the first tour we did.”

People Thinking Trying Firsts Mean Book Ends Attention Directors Magazines

Author:Chris Baio

“When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.”

Common Consciousness Break Musician

Author:Trey Anastasio

“When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.”

Attention Roles Musician Models Role Models

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“When you're a musician and you release an album, you have to accept the criticism - and I accept it! But it's something I'll never get used to.”

Accepting Musician Criticism

Author:Anthony Gonzalez

“When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.”

Trying Children Sometimes Parent Pieces Claims Your Children Finding Yourself

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: Vanishing Acts

“When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."”

Stills Action Three Parent Months Concepts Okay Commit Three Months

Author:Thom Yorke

“When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.”

Jobs Grows Parent Growing Up Like Me Good Job

Author:Gwen Stefani

“When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.”

Want Different Courses Audience Fame Performers

Author:Cate Blanchett

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