Craig Brewer Quotes

I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

Craig Brewer

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• Theater
• Girls
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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

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• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

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• Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

  

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• Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

  

  Mal Peet
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• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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• Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  

  Wendy Craig
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• When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

  

  O. R. Melling
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• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

  Candice Olson
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• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Great
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• As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify with superheroes. They'll read a book or watch a TV programme and say, 'I'm that guy.' And that guy is always the one in control.

  

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• I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. With my children, I'm just 'Mom.' At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

  

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• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

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• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

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• We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.

  

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• The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.

  

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• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

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• The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.

  

  Saint Ambrose
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• The thing about dads is, even when they're very good, they don't do anything like as much as most mums do.

  

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• I was chubby and awkward, and the only way I could really meet girls was to join children's theater, so that's what I did.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Children
  • Theater
  • Girls