Barry Hughart Quotes
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Barry Hughart
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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
The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.
Ferid Murad
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
The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
Aaron Paul
My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh
I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
Kate Klise
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
Barbara Kingsolver
My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people from the beatnik generation. They weren't married, and I thought that was normal. We called them by their first names.
Rachel Kushner
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
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
Walter Savage Landor
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
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
Baz Luhrmann
There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
Deirdre O'Kane
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to a feral state!
T. H. White
I'm a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!
Ray Park
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Barry Hughart
