Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
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The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.
George Michael
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I'm a Muslim Egyptian-American, born in Cairo. I grew up in Kuwait until the first Gulf War, when my family relocated to the United Arab Emirates. As an adult, I studied and lived in the U.K. before moving to Boston.
Rana el Kaliouby
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I come from a part of Nigeria where a lot of value is placed on implicit communication. The 'well brought up' child is the one who can pick up nonverbal cues from adults and interpret them correctly.
Ayobami Adebayo
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Once I had wondered what it would be like to be an adult. I thought, like all children, that adulthood was accompanied by esoteric secrets, complicated insights, mysteriously acquired skills. But it turned out to be very simple: you were exactly the same, you were still a child, but you had to find a way to look after yourself.
Edeet Ravel
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Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.
John Bradshaw
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As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
Norman Macleod
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Natalie Goldberg
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Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.
Uwe Boll
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If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.
Kylie Minogue
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That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.
Carl Andre
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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
John Milton
