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“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.”

Knows Children Rooms Childhood

Author:D.E. Stevenson

“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.”

Feels Happens Able Certain Rooms Childhood Music Is Smell Great Things Your Children Capability Time Travel

Author:M. Ward

“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I didn't want it to be gentle like most puppet shows tend to be, since they come from childhood where you're gently trying to tell a story. I wanted to blast all that out of the water. I think there's plenty of room of any kind of attitude toward puppets. I call puppeteering acting while hiding.”

Thinking Want Trying Kind Stories Shows Wanted Turns Stuff Water Rooms Acting Attitude Childhood Plenty Gentle Hiding Blast Puppets Puppet Shows

Author:Wayne White

“My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.”

Years Used Girl Rooms Acting Half Attitude Roles Childhood Eight Ambitious Auditions Standing Out Realised Theatrical My Attitude

Author:Jessie J

“I used to watch 10 hours of television a night, my entire childhood. And I don't think it did all good things to me. I certainly still have social problems that are a result of being in my room alone too much.”

Thinking Stills Problem Used Night Social Hours Rooms Results Watches Too Much Childhood Television Good Things Social Problems

Author:Judd Apatow

“Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood experience in a very real way. Their poverty meant that there was nothing else they could think about but what they would eat, how they would clothe themselves. There's just no room for other things in his family. It's difficult for others to imagine the position in which he found himself. There is no imaginary existence in their lives.”

Thinking Men Way Firsts Important Real Found Difficult Love Is Rooms Existence Poverty Imagine Childhood Position Imaginary

Author:Catherine Camus

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.”

Left Understanding Rooms Childhood Bitter

Book:The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy

“The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.”

Book Parent Rooms Childhood Losing Good Book Mr Spock Losing A Parent

Author:Louise Penny

“Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."”

Said Faces Guy Black Rooms Gone Blood Childhood Tears Gay Bed Dear Singers Bars Bullying Flood Beaten Introduction Bruised Homophobic Childhood Friend

Author:Cilla Black