Beryl Bainbridge Quotes
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
Mara Wilson
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
R. Kelly
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
Viggo Mortensen
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Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
Gail Sheehy
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I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
Dakota Johnson
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I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
Gary Oldman
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
Xavier Dolan
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
Karl Lagerfeld
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
J. Philippe Rushton
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Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.
Charles R. Swindoll
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There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.
Olivier Martinez
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When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.
Jamie Johnson
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I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.
Satchel Paige
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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge
