Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life...
The (children's) book is a specimen of the most scandalous escapism: it paints a happiness under incompatible conditions – the sort of freedom we can have only in childhood and the sort we can have only in maturity – and conceals the contradictio...
Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.
I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.
Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.
I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.
I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy events, but a little girl can carry only so much on her own.
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life...
I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to have a childhood that was _not_ like mine. I have no real frame of reference, but when I question strangers I've found that their childhood generally had much less blood in it, and also that stranger...
Trauma can have a masking effect.
The medium obscured the message.
There is no such thing as a conservative hero.
I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.
I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
The mental health system is filled with survivors of prolonged, repeated childhood trauma. This is true even though most people who have been abused in childhood never come to psychiatric attention. To the extent that these people recover, they do so...
My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
