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“It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.”

Men Want Writing Trying Kids Jobs Culture Causes Sound Pops My Time Old Man Pop Culture

Author:R. L. Stine

“In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.”

Years Littles Two Kids Parent Sound Dog Average Income Household Fence New Orleans Working Parents

Author:Anthony Mackie

“When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.”

Trying Kind Kids Remember Sound Wonder Who I Am Emulate Soulful

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.”

Kids Stuff Sound Jazz Hip Hop Radio Hips Alternatives Hops Latin

Author:Mario Vazquez

“This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.”

Knows Men Bigs Kids Used Culture House Sound Warrior Former Indian Native Old Man Native American American Culture Former Life Native American Culture

Author:Marc Forgione

“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.”

Years Play Whole Kids Actors Sound Missing College Seasons Theater Festivals Oregon Live Theater

Author:Donal Logue

“I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.”

Kind Kids Sound Listening Goes On Youtube Gauges

Author:Missy Elliot

“Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.”

People Ifs Children Care Kids Turns Reading Sound Lines Talking Listening Benefits Adults Extras Immigrants Volume Deaf Turn Off

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“He was so good with the kids on the set. He just knew exactly how to handle them. The baby would cry and Vin would hold him and do all these weird sounds and the baby would stop crying. It was really cute.”

Kids Sound Cry Baby Handle Cute Really Cute

Author:Brittany Snow

“As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.”

Should I Can Kids Guy Sound Tough Decided Shakes Accents Phony Brando

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I was playing with sound like I would have played with pots and pans as a kid.”

Kids Sound Pot Pots And Pans

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.”

Kind Ideas Character Kids School Father Names Sound Novel Dog High School Angry Unusual Bark Yelling Barking Dogs Unusual Names Bart Simpson

Author:Matt Groening

“Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.”

Looks Kids Film Sound Horror Peaceful Bored Frightened Scream Vacuums Cleaners Horror Film Roller Coaster Coasters Kids Love Rollercoaster

Book:Dad Is Fat

Source: Dad Is Fat

“It's fun, I didn't have enough money as a kid to buy a drum set, so I had to do something. I would mimic the sounds. That was it. And it worked. It worked for years.”

Years Enough Kids Fun Sound

Author:John DiMaggio

“Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.”

“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.”

Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World

“I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.”

Whole Stories Kids Mother Reading Sound Careers Projects Customers Monsters Selling Dramatic Nightmare Werewolf

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Music to me, still to this day, is this wide open landscape of potential sounds (and I have more words for it now as a grown person), but as a little kid I used to think, "oh, you can just make up melodies and sometimes when you make certain melodies it makes you feel a certain way."”

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Author:Josh Garrels

“Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?”

People Want Giving Ends Seems Kids Night Turns Sound Dark Wind Argument Fortune Surround Bloody Dishes Surround Yourself Hostage Happy Family Busted

Author:Mike Carey

“I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Seems Kids Dies Grows Sound Marriage Crazy Married Connected Being Married

Author:John Burns