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“I have a four-and-a-half-year-old and, when she was two and a half, she would make my wife and I do voices, like Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl, or Elmo, or Yogi Bear and Booboo. If we didn't do it, she would scream at us. So, my wife and I would have adult conversations as Yogi Bear and Booboo. It was just a nightmare year.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“People are stereotypes, they are caricaturized. It comes from both sides of the political aisle, it comes from the press. It's all about conflict, it's all about personality, and there are huge stakes in the policies that are being debated, and I think there's a hunger amongst a very significant, maybe even a critical mass of Americans, clustered on the left, right, and center, to have an adult conversation about how we're going to solve these problems ... but it's not for the fainthearted.”

“I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.”

Differences Conversation Adults Argument

Book:A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction

Source: A Writer's Story: From Life to Fiction

“In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with a greater degree of honesty than was possible before. In getting older themselves, our adult children may begin to comprehend the burdens and strengths we carried from our own parents.”

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Author:Wendy Lustbader

“No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”

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Author:James Patterson

“Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.”

Kids Childhood Ignorance Conversation Adults Doomed

Book:Men of the Otherworld

Source: Men of the Otherworld

“When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.”

Knows Want Effort Boys Conversation Adults Series Uncomfortable

Book:Moon Over Soho

Source: Moon Over Soho

“The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.”

Way Children Conversation Jokes Adults Youngest Child

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...”

Children Conversation Adults Beer Tall

Author:Dylan Moran

“I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.”

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Author:Justin Timberlake