“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.” ImportantDreamKidsWantedSchoolMinesIndustryDegreesMusicianPrioritiesMassiveMusic Industry Author:Emeli Sande
“Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.” KidsBitsStepsJudgingIndustryInstrumentsPrisonCashRight DirectionJudiciarySteps In The Right Direction Author:Thomas Frank
“I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.” WayLittlesMadeKidsWantedFilmIndustryLittle Kid Author:Benh Zeitlin
“A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.” ThinkingBelieveKidsJobsAmericaHateI BelieveMorningHappenedCollegeIndustryMajorsPercentGet UpHotel Author:Dana White
“I grew up loving action movies and films that were set in supernatural, unimaginable places. So I take being a woman in the film industry who is able to do action movies very seriously because I'm making the kind of movies that I wanted to watch as I was a kid and that inspired me and are the reason as to why I am here.” KindReasonKidsAbleActionWantedFilmWatchesGrewIndustryGrew UpInspiredBeing A WomanFilm IndustryUnimaginableAction Movie Author:Zoe Saldana
“I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.” ShowsKidsYoungActorsIndustryEntertainmentProgrammingEthnicityEntertainment Industry Author:Charles Michael Davis
“Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNaturalPayAttentionOur LivesSonLike YouIndustryMusic IsMy SonBobKnow MeCritiqueMusic Industry Author:Ziggy Marley
“It's not Comic Con any more. It's this huge marketplace for the motion picture and television industry. And the toy manufacturer's and the game people. One of the problems with International Comic Con is that tickets go on sale for the next year's event and the place is full of thousands and thousands of kids who have scraped together every dime to get admittance because they want to get all the freebies.” PeopleWantYearsProblemKidsTogetherNextGamesEventsTelevisionHugeGoes OnIndustryInternationalComicToysTicketsMarketplaceNext YearDimesMotion PicturesComic ConAdmittanceTelevision Industry Author:Mike Royer
“They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.” DoneMightKidsOrderFriendshipIndustryBitterCriticizeGood FriendRivalsAustralianWheat Author:John Howard
“Acting is a tough industry. There are a lot of kids out there at drama schools and not a lot of money about, especially as the arts are being cut.” ArtKidsSchoolActingCuttingIndustryDramaToughLots Of Money Author:Phil Daniels
“Especially with me working in the entertainment industry, I think my kids are aware of weight and fat much earlier than other kids. It was important to me from the beginning to make sure they understand things like why too much sugar is bad for you, etc.” ThinkingImportantKidsToo MuchIndustryWeightEntertainmentFatsEtcSugarEntertainment Industry Author:Alison Sweeney
“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLightKidsTodayEarthTurnsNextEnergyRoomsProgressSeeingEconomicMankindPlanetsTheorySourceDependsIndustryCleanCorruptionGlobal WarmingScareNext YearBansLiving OnTurn OffEnergy SourcesHotter Author:Doug Casey
“That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.” MenFactsKidsAmericaCultureStreetsMiddleIndustryRedScaredLustWrong ThingsCreepyMcdonaldsMiddle AgedMtvPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical IndustryHerringRed Herrings Author:Bill Maher
“I was young, not married, didn't have kids and I was like, "Why not just try for something now and see what happens while nothing's tying me down?" And, I've been fortunate, since I graduated, to work in the industry and keep on working.” TryingHappensKidsYoungIndustryMarriedDown AndFortunateWhy Not Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.” PeopleThinkingHardShowsKidsOpportunityIndustryPopsIdolsRecogniseMusic IndustryGreat OpportunityTainted Author:Melanie Chisholm
“You know I really don't like to think about the fact that I'm a girl in relation to the music industry. I was just a kid who wrote down thoughts to organize her brain and that turned into music, like any other writer or musician... so, I happen to be a girl. I don't consider that part of it really.. It may disappoint some feminists out there that I don't want to harp on women and men being equal.” ThinkingKnowsMenWantMayFactsHappensKidsGirlBrainIndustryEqualMusicianMen And WomenRelationFeministOrganizeDisappointMusic IndustryHarpsBeing Equal Author:Lacey Mosley
“No matter what does, or doesn't, happen for me in the music industry, getting to play the Opry as a kid was always be a highlight of mine.” DoeMatterPlayHappensKidsMinesIndustryNo Matter WhatMusic IndustryHighlights Author:Charlie Worsham
“The one glaring issue I have with the modeling industry and the fashion industry is that there is no union for young women and when I went into acting, the way young kids are protected, there must be a mandatory union or regulation, it just has to be done.” WayDoneKidsYoungActingIssuesFashionIndustryUnionsRegulationProtectedYoung WomenModelingFashion IndustryModeling Industry Author:Jaime King
“There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.” YearsHas BeensKidsNextFiveCollegeIndustryIncrediblesFive YearsRegulationRoboticsBuffetsGenomics Author:Juan Enriquez
“I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."” PeopleIfsSaidCharacterKidsMotherIndustryMetsDirectorsDaughterMy FriendsFemaleDecidedAskingFeministProducersThey SaidFemale CharactersMother DaughterKids Movie Author:Geena Davis
“When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.” KnowsYearsDoneKidsNaturalPerspectiveIndustryAlbumsQueens Author:Mic Geronimo
“I started in this industry [television] as a kid doing commercials. Ever since I was introduced to it, I loved it.” KidsTelevisionIndustry Author:Kofi Siriboe
“Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.” KnowsI CanRealFactsProblemBigsKidsStuffDifferencesLinesFictionBoysGrowing UpIssuesGrowingCrazySeriousIndustryEntertainmentHandleSpillsEntertainment IndustryBlurrySerious IssuesNewsworthyFact And Fiction Author:Rob Lowe
“The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.” KidsIndustryFocusedShallowMidwestHedonistic Author:Eddie Jemison
“We are just coming out of a 100-year stupor from being lied to by the tobacco industry for a century about the effects on young people, on cancer, these candy cigarettes that they promised had nothing to do with kids, Joe Camel that they promised was focused on the, you know, 55-year-old white male smoker, which we know is wrong. And we finally got out of that. Why in the world would we want to create the same thing, just not Big Tobacco this time, Big Marijuana?” PeopleKnowsWorldWantYearsBigsKidsYoungWhiteEffectsCenturyIndustryMalesCancerFocusedComing OutMarijuanaCigaretteCandyLiedTobaccoCamelsSmokersBeing LiedTobacco Industry Author:Kevin Sabet
“K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.” TryingPersonsKidsArtistCertainReadyPersonalityIndustryFindingsMatureTrendsNicheDotsBending Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenKidsParentCommunityIndustryTeenagerSkipApprenticeBeing A Teenager Author:Temple Grandin