I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
When I was a child, I understood the things of my childhood. Now that I have grown into a man, I understand less of the world than I did as a lad.
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
I was not an attractive child. When I didn't use my Girl Scouts uniform as a uniform, I used it as a tent.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.
For every idea that's been done to DEATH, there's a child being BORN who hasn't read it yet. Don't kill your dragons.
There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.
Social media is not just another way to connect feminist and activist voices - it amplifies our messages as well.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
