Larry Smith Quotes

Taking a lifetime to grow up.

Larry Smith

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• He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Memories
  • Lifetime
  • Regrets

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • America
  • Boy

• One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Lifetime

• I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

  

  Patrick White
  • American
  • Success
  • Me

• My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Up
  • Father
  • Black

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• I don't snack a lot, because I didn't grow up snacking.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Grow
  • Grow Up

• What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

  

  Karen Bender
  • Up
  • You
  • Grow

• I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Audience

• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Important
  • History

• Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Think
  • Wise

• After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • War
  • Government
  • Disease

• If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Advice

• The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Reality
  • Knows
  • Tomorrow

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• I share an office with Jason Sudeikis, and I'm friends with him, so I end up writing for him a lot.

  

  Mike O'Brien
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Jason

• To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Music
  • God
  • Happy

• Taking a lifetime to grow up.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Lifetime
  • Grow Up