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“I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Problem Inspire Becoming Adults Sticks Actresses Crossings Guidelines Crossing Over Becoming An Adult

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.”

Thinking Feels Problem Kids America Issues Adults Valuable Priorities

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“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

“We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.”

Heart Problem Childhood Adults Tolls

Author:Gary Webb

“Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.”

Country Problem America Three Huge Adults Our Country Illiterate Illiteracy

Author:Roseanne Barr

“With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.”

Should Mind May Children Problem Growing Economic Development Adults Curiosity Openness Devoted Manhood Sympathetic Coping Economic Problems Unbiased Responsiveness

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“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.”

“A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.”

People Thinking Stills Real Problem Kids Artist Grows Forget Deals Growing Up Adults Killing Bullshit Good Art Good Artist

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.”

Ifs Knows Writing Facts Problem Remember Adults Spots Remembers Everything

Author:Michael Scott

“International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.”

Thinking World Want Children Doe Problem Parent Answers Solutions Adults International Solve Brilliant Adoption Wanting More

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.”

“I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.”

Thinking Problem Faces Difficult Becoming Adults Insecurity Becoming An Adult

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve the problems for them. They could use their own ingenuity, use their own talents to solve whatever the issue was. And I like that still. I think that children want to read about heroic children. They don't want to read about children that have to be saved all the time.”

Thinking Want Needs Children Stills Book Use Problem Kids Reading Issues Talent Adults Solve Saved Heroic Reading Books Ingenuity

Author:John Boyne

“Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?”

Made War Reason Play Whole Problem Girl Fighting House Boys Groups Creating Gun Adults Complexes Gender Solve Arguing Ran Toys Yards Negotiation Dolls Toy Guns

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”

Giving Humans May Children Problem Would Be Turns Parent Human Beings Ability Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Adults Fellows Hiding Clinging Childlike Parental Lingering

Author:Frank Pittman

“The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need which has its source in the pressure of unsolved problems. Nor does he know that his pleasure in playing comes from a deep sense of well-being that is the direct result of feeling in control of things, in contrast to the rest of his life, which is managed by his parents or other adults.”

Knows Needs Wells Children Doe Play Feelings Problem Parent Pleasure Results Source Adults Direct Pressure Well Being Contrast Enjoyable Unsolved Problems

Author:Bruno Bettelheim

“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”

“It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.”

People Problem America Young Adults Rate Population Heavy Rising Statistics Obesity Public Health Health Problems

Author:William J. Clinton

“Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.”

Thinking World Way Trying Looks Hard Enough Problem Faces Figures Politician Solutions Adults Profit Solve Corporate Motive Enough Time Specialists

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.”

Thinking Knows Problem Kids Differences Results Trouble Theory Adults Glad Observation Fake Select Ecstatic

Author:Emma Bull

“Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.”

World Problem Clear Adults Prepared

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.”

Problem Causes Term Adults Abolish

Author:Adora Svitak

“If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Problem Young Know How Adults Raises Young Adult Solve

Book:The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

Source: The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

“Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.-”

Problem Issues Adults

Author:Christian Smith

“That's the biggest problem existing in this country! People are always mixing up the word free and freedom. Free is something you get for nothin.' Freedom is a responsibility. We think freedom means do nothing, don't be responsible for your actions.... I think its time for adult Americans to be responsible for themselves, to take back the responsibility of being a free nation.”

People Thinking Mean Country Problem Action Nations Responsibility Adults Responsible Being Responsible Mixing

Author:Aaron Tippin

“I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.”

Ifs Way Should Self Problem Wish My Own Opinion Adults Teenager Idiot Teenage

Author:Emma Forrest

“And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em.”

People Writing Trying May Play Problem Forget Deals Doors Land Figures Adults Crisis Scales Ems Teens Ceo Slam Tweens

Author:Lauren Myracle

“Kids dealing with these really adult-problems. I'm making big, generalized statements but our culture doesn't acknowledge these things. Sex does lead to pregnancy! Kids don't always have an outlet or someone they can talk to about it.”

Doe Problem Bigs Kids Culture Sex Adults Statements Acknowledge Pregnancy Outlets

Author:Sarah Steele

“We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.”

Needs Kind Problem Light Happens Night Morning Too Much Missing Bed Adults Opposites Treats Mark Wake Up Rhythm Bright Lights Circadian Rhythm Older Adults

Author:Shelby Harris

“The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35 percent for youth, they bail out the banks, public schools, there is a deep divide. We need a plan for reconstruction and redevelopment and I hope that - police are the gatekeepers but behind that gate are these problems of disparities and injustice.”

“I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!”

Want Problem Film Adults Cinema No Problem Rating

Author:Tilda Swinton

“There isn't any problem with little girls. And there isn't any problem with young women or adult women. I mean, they are model citizens. It's the guys that create all of the problems in our culture. And so it's the guys that have to be reprogrammed. Not the women.”

Mean Littles Problem Young Guy Culture Girl Citizens Models Adults Young Women

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.”

Children Problem Today Grows Growing Up Depends Tomorrow Solutions Adults Our Children

Author:Margaret Mead

“Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.”

Knows World Want Children Sometimes Problem Literature Difficult Dark Horror Adults Presses Complexes Entertaining Buttons

Author:Michael Morpurgo

“Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”

Problem Form Difficult Forget One Thing Periods Solutions Adults Unconscious Infancy Burying

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!”

Trying Stills Problem Young Authority Adults Young Adult Teenager Resentment

Author:Nikki Sixx

“Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited”

Said Problem Left Rooms Adults Glances Invited Nodding Tacit

Author:Brandon Mull

“Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.”

Ifs Knows Way Kind Has Beens Matter Facts Use Problem Today Too Much Dog Mines Approach Adults Train Sticks Population Educated Lifts Select Matter Of Fact

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.”

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”

Problem Kids Born Focus Beats Adults Resources Vote Scientist Curiosity Mind Blowing

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.”

Years Littles Stills Problem Age Law Science Known Bird Research Adults Dresses Finals Acquire Routes Disposition Migration Unsolved Problems

Author:Paul Bartsch

“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

Children Problem Law Science Growth Known Psychology Doors Future Adults Determination Fundamentals Evident Forecasts Investigating

Book:The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

Source: The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

“Act your age. Students do not look upon you as a buddy, pal, or peer. They expect you to be a mature adult....Many young teachers have a tendency to seek popularity, resorting to tactics that can create endless problems.”

Looks Problem Age Young Teacher Teaching Students Adults Endless Tendencies Look Up Mature Popularity Peers Tactics Buddy Pals

Author:Jim Brown

“The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.”

Giving Children Done Problem Space Wonder Ordinary Adults Contrary Time And Space Space Time

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”