Adult Quotes
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The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I’ll probably move on to something else. (Adult Quotes)
The Piano Lesson’ is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I’ve attempted. It’s the first film I’ve written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative. (Adult Quotes)
I’ve had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It’s always been a constant balance, year to year: ‘Where’s the time? Where’s the money?’ (Adult Quotes)
Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it’s a whole different set of colors. (Adult Quotes)
I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call ‘literary’ without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered. (Adult Quotes)
I think President Obama wanted to have the right fit for his different cabinet positions, and I believe that experience is what mattered most to him. In my case, I have been working to improve the overall quality of life for working families for most of my adult life, and I think that experience resonated with the president. (Adult Quotes)
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we’d memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it’s characters, and would immerse in playing like that for hours. I suppose it was a natural follow up, wanting to still play in a similar fashion, but as an adult. (Adult Quotes)
Kids are naturally curious about what they don’t know, or don’t understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity. (Adult Quotes)
I’ve never had a particular skill. I can’t cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I’d think, when I’m grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted. (Adult Quotes)
Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to. (Adult Quotes)
If you can help a child, you don’t have to spend years repairing an adult (Adult Quotes)
You have tremendous freedom in the young adult book world to write what you want. You can put R-rated content in a book that you can’t in a similarly targeted movie. (Adult Quotes)
Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness- (Adult Quotes)
I think it’s hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like. (Adult Quotes)
...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder. (Adult Quotes)
Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don’t care about full moons. They’ll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories. (Adult Quotes)
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, Aye, Sir. Course laid inis a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked. (Adult Quotes)
I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next. (Adult Quotes)
I became an adult before I had a kid, which I highly recommend. I just like to throw her around. She’s a really good snuggler, and she likes to give kisses and hugs. (Adult Quotes)
A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that’s bullshit. We are still kids. It’s the same, you just grow up. You’re a kid with more experience. (Adult Quotes)
It’s hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own. (Adult Quotes)
I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow. (Adult Quotes)
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult. (Adult Quotes)
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with the fairy-tale world of childhood, a never-ending journey through great and small, through variations and the realm of illusions and appearances, a labyrinthine and specular place of multitudes and simulation. (Adult Quotes)
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. (Adult Quotes)
Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain. (Adult Quotes)
The great thing about candy is that it can’t be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween. (Adult Quotes)
I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won’t make that mistake again. (Adult Quotes)
The whole experience on ‘Grown Ups 2’ was like going to adult summer camp (Adult Quotes)
But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others. (Adult Quotes)