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“It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.”

Term Attitude Break Taken Adults Who I Am

Book:True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

Source: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

“In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of "normal" work. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.”

“the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may lead the adolescent into misunderstanding as to his nature and his role in life. 'Young" he is; 'adult' he is not.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

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Author:Meg Wolitzer

“I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.”

Want Believe Important Stories Kids I Believe Goal Taken Adults Decided Mediums Animation

Author:Signe Baumane

“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children's adaptive capacity.”

“I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.”

Giving Believe Purpose Virtue Taken Week Adults Grinder

Author:Jeb Bush

“Individuality is vitally important. When people start to lose their individuality is when I believe they start to lose themselves. I think children are born with this message, and it shouldn't be taken away from them. I hope they walk away with it after seeing the film, and adults too. And I notice it also with myself, because the older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.”

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Author:Brittany Murphy

“I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.”

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Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.”

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Author:Shia LaBeouf

“Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life.”

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Author:Carre Otis

“Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!”

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Author:Faith Hunter

“He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.”

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Book:Iced: Fever Series

Source: Iced: Fever Series