“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.” PeopleWayWritingReadingInterestGoneHappenedChildhoodNormalUniversalMemoirOutrageousThresholdWeirdness Author:Sara Nelson
“And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.” WayWritingKindFeelingsWantedRomanceYoungInterestPowerfulFantasyChildhoodAdultsYoung AdultKingdomsGradesFifthVery PowerfulSixth GradeFifth Grade Author:Wes Anderson
“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.” IfsEndsArtistInterestSawsInfluenceChildhoodTasteApproachYour Children Author:Brett Ratner
“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.” YearsImportantMatterProcessInterestSupportLearningPiecesAliveChildhoodMiddleSubjectsParticularSkillsFindingsTechniqueRelatedGlowingSubject Matter Author:Dorothy H Cohen
“Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.” KidsWantedInterestChildhoodHugeBasketballBullsIconsJordanPlaygroundsDynasty Author:Macklemore
“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.” ThinkingTryingHas BeensMightAgeInterestChildhoodDepressionMachinesDefenseStealingComedianAwakeZeroTwelveNot InterestedMight Have BeenElevenNapsSupermarketsHumoristsUnhappy ChildhoodGumballs Author:Michael Ian Black
“There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.” LittlesArtArtistInterestChildhoodPaintingBirdSouthRaisedLocalsMuseumsMinorsCarolinaSouth CarolinaCharlestonCharleston South Carolina Author:Jasper Johns
“Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.” PeopleArtistInterestGrowing UpShareChildhoodLonelyFeeling Lonely Author:Deborah Solomon
“My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” FirstsFactsSchoolInterestMemoriesTeacherChildhoodShoesBoxesReformBirthdayPolishChildhood MemoriesCrackersFirst Birthday Author:Flip Wilson