“Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.” ArtLanguageStuffChildhoodAdvertisingVisualsVisual Art Author:Damien Hirst
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?” WantFeelsKindLongHas BeensCertainFatherStuffInterestingChildhoodReturnDramaElementsLong TimeGet AwayExhaustedLong Time AgoFamily Drama Author:Sam Shepard
“a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.” ChildrenLiteratureStrongStuffDealsChildhoodAdultsChildren's Literature Author:Philippa Pearce
“I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.” KindChildrenCharacterHomeStuffResponsibilityCreativeHappenedChildhoodBehaviorAdultsStrategyBrilliantMy ChildrenDefectsPowerlessTaking ResponsibilityCopingShortcomingsBlamelessDefects Of Character Author:Ashley Judd
“My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.” StuffChildhoodSourceHigherExposureTheologicalFaith BasedMedian Author:Jim Butcher
“We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.” ChildrenStuffEducationChildhoodErrorsShoesFollowingReasoningExtravaganceFathom Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.” WritingLongHas BeensBookStuffTalkingPlayerChildhoodFootballDrawingComicGradesComic BookGave UpFootball PlayerPro FootballSixth Grade Author:Adam Ross
“I believe, when in my behavior or in relationships or in the way I react to something, that I'm still dealing with some leftover stuff from my childhood, but the good thing is now, because I have learned so much from the Bible, I can tell when I'm behaving wrong and when I'm not, and it doesn't take me very long to realize that's out of fear, or that's because I was controlled as a child, and I can make a conscious decision to behave the way I know I should behave.” KnowsWayShouldBelieveChildrenLongStillsI CanI BelieveStuffRealizingDecisionChildhoodBehaviorConsciousGood ThingsMy ChildrenBehaveControlledTake MeI Have Learned Author:Joyce Meyer
“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.” ThinkingWantTryingKindStoriesShowsWantedTurnsStuffWaterRoomsActingAttitudeChildhoodPlentyGentleHidingBlastPuppetsPuppet Shows Author:Wayne White
“You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in your imagination, and you're supposed to go buy groceries and talk to people at parties and stuff.” PeopleWritingStuffImaginationPartyNovelAliveChildhoodInvisibleGroceries Author:David Foster Wallace
“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.” ThinkingNeedsKindSaidTwoArtistLeftStuffChildhoodSeriousLike YouBalanceHealthyHusbandOur ChildrenCompetitionSingersComedianMy HusbandFunny StuffHealthy Competition Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“I'm surprised by how much I remember [on childhood on film]. I think it's just because I had these interesting moments. Of course, you never know when they're interesting moments, but there was a lot of stuff that I remember and have attached significance to later. I remember enough. I remember highlights.” ThinkingKnowsEnoughMomentsRememberFilmCoursesStuffInterestingChildhoodSignificanceHighlights Author:Mara Wilson