Grownups Quotes - Page 2

• I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'

  Leslie Feinberg

  Girl, Boys, Eyebrows

  Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

  May Sarton

  Baby, Genius, Forget

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

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• Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to wear perfume. I had one perfume and I would save it for really, really, really special occasions. Which meant I never actually wore it. So now it's one of those things like, I can wear perfume everyday. I can afford to buy another one, I'm really lucky that I can. Now when I have nice stuff I don't save it anymore, I try to use it.

  Margot Robbie

  Growing Up, Nice, Everyday

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's easier to be a grownup than to be a kid. When you're a kid, you lie constantly and people are always calling you on it. And when you're a grownup, you lie constantly and people rarely do. Children are constantly being caught. Adults rarely so. Being an adult, you also get a free pass, which means you have to actively be a good person because nobody's around to tell you to do that. Even evil kids will be good when adults are watching. But once you're an adult, no one is. As a grownup, you've got an agency over your own life, which hopefully you use for the greater good and not evil.

  Simon Rich

  Children, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something that makes it difficult to just be a man, a grownup. Not to take away from any actors, but I knew I wasn't going to be Tom Cruise. I knew I was a character actor, which is great and I'm proud of it. But I knew that I wanted to do more. I started producing and directing and writing and stuff for the theater, and then that grew out of hand and I sort of lost my control. I've always loved the process of filmmaking. Now I'm much more into producing docs, but I want to direct features.

  Fisher Stevens

  Writing, Character, Men

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• When people go to a new country, whether as refugees or immigrants, kids usually assimilate easily, but it's much harder for the grownups. Especially, oftentimes, for the mothers, because they are usually confined to the house. They're not going to school, and they're not necessarily holding down a job. It's tough. It's not easy to assimilate to a new culture when you're an adult.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Mother, Country, School

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

  Lee Remick

  Acting, Hollywood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Children want to do what grownups do.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Want

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• I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it's for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.

  Jack Black

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

  E. B. White

  Children, Spring, Heart

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Genius, Born

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• Grownups have to say 'please,' too.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Please

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• I think your 20s are the hardest part of life. I mean, everyone goes on about how hard it is to be a teenager, but actually I think it’s tougher to be in your 20s because you’re expected to be a grownup and expected to earn your own living and be successful and I think you feel like a kid still.

  Nigel Cole

  Teenager, Mean, Kids

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• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

  Robbie Fowler

  Christmas, Summer, Children

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• The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.

  Louis C. K.

  Football, Jobs, Teaching

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

  Shirley Temple

  Girl, Proud, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

  Keith Richards

  Growing Up, Thinking, Age

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• Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Sunshine, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Sunshine" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• A lot of times it's the child that sees something and not the grownup. I love that because, when readers get older, they start looking for the most important ideas in the story. They don't look at things in the same way anymore. Children haven't really learned to do that yet. They take all their great, intellectual skills, look at the full page, and appreciate all of the different things.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Skills, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

  Clinton Portis

  Kids

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• Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

  Jules Feiffer

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffrey, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

  William Golding

  Goes On

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.101, Hamilton Books

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• I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.

  Stan Lee

  Thinking, People, Bigger Than Life

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Book, Reading

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