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“I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.”

Knows Wanted Young Attitude Youth Strange Laughter Loud Laughed Involuntary

Book:The Town in Bloom

Source: The Town in Bloom

“In my youth, I wanted to be a great pantomimist -- but I found I had nothing to say.”

Wanted Found Youth

Author:Victor Borge

“On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.”

Ideas Hands Wanted Emotion Advice Youth Materials Reader Including Latter Relevant Publishing Verses Inferiors Skip Documentation

Author:Edmund Wilson

“I get letters from kids from all over the country. I always try to answer them because there were people I looked up to in my youth and just wanted to be in contact with. It's also important to realize that you find your role models in a lot of different places. I've never believed that your role models have to look like you. You can find them in all sort of colors, shapes and sizes.”

People Trying Looks Important Different Country Kids Wanted Realizing Answers Roles Youth Color Like You Shapes Models Letters Size Contact Role Models Different Place

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.”

Play Wanted School Opportunity Sports Team Position Youth College High School Decided Coaches

Author:LaVell Edwards

“I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.”

People Believe Art Helping Wanted Young I Believe Known Youth Hardship

Author:Renee Watson

“I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.”

Wanted Film Interest Struggle Sadness Subjects Youth Terrible Economics Overcoming University I Realized Glad Administration Odd Graduation Day Bologna Business Administration

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“Outside of being a hit maker, I want to also be a star maker. Me being so young still as a veteran in the game, I wanted to give back to the youth and give back to my community. I want to find somebody that's special and birth them to the world.”

World Want Giving Stills Wanted Young Games Stars Community Special Youth Birth Makers Veteran Giving Back

Author:Sean Garrett

“They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.”

Way Wanted Sports Mistake Youth Program Clubs Seventies

Author:Casey Stengel

“In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play