Toys Quotes - Page 16

• I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

  James Broughton

  Eight, Magic, Theater

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• If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.

  Aaron Neville

  Baby, Boys, Play

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• As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them.

  Robert Crumb

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "The R. Crumb Handbook". Book by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski, 2005.

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• I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

  Craig Ferguson

  Christmas, Scotland, Potatoes

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• I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

  Ang Lee

  Girl, Wall, Kids

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• At long last I have discovered that most shooters are not interested in firearms as tools, but rather as toys. Such people do not acquire their weapons because of what they will do, but rather to gratify the "Christmas morning joy" that we largely left behind in our childhood.

  Jeff Cooper

  Morning, Long, People

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• In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

  George Eliot

  Country, Book, Men

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1303, Wordsworth Editions

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• While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys on Christmas day,I'm inside a still life with the other absentee.

  St. Vincent

  Jesus, People, Saint

  Song: Jesus Saves, I Spend, Album: Marry Me, 2007

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• Here in America, government began as a tool to assure freedom. It gradually turned into a hideously expensive political toy designed to redistribute your wealth and control most aspects of your business and private life.

  Mark Skousen

  Government, America, Political

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• A secretary is not a toy.

  Frank Loesser

  Secretary

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.

  Jon Heder

  Stars, War, Gun

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• Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Dad, Real

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• Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

  Margaret Mead

  Sports, Nfl, Department

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• [Amy Sedaris] is awesome to work with. She's an amazing person. She makes her own line of catnip toys, and she gave me a bunch for my cat. It meant the world to me. She also got me stuff for my daughter, but I was more enamored with what she gave me for my cat.

  David Krumholtz

  Daughter, Cat, Amy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

  Christian Slater

  Kids, People, Shy

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

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• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Parent, Television, Way

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• I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.

  Katie McGrath

  Grandchildren, One Day, Want

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• The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

  Ben Affleck

  Stars, War, America

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2012.

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• Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Cute, Clothes, Moose

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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• Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on such incredible power and personality simply by the way they were photographed. I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and reality that was in fact not there

  David Levinthal

  Reality, Ideas, Personality

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• You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

  Hannu Rajaniemi

  Hands, Mind, Something New

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• A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

  Chael Sonnen

  Brother, Black, Meals

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• If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Spring, Pride

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.86, Penguin UK

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