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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.
A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.
I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be.
Child actors going on to become adult actors never really works, apart from a few. Jodie Foster was the exception.
In many cases, the reason why our child development centers are not at full capacity is that we have an insufficient number of providers.
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
I never wanted anything to do with the theatre as a child. I was dragged there under duress.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
The child is not an empty being who owes whatever he knows to us who have filled him up with it. No, the child is the builder of man. There is no man existing who has not been formed by the child he once was.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
I was always very dramatic - my family would probably use the word 'dramatic' - as a child; always putting on performances, making everyone come watch, and pay to watch. I was very business-savvy as a child.
As a child, I had loved history because it showed so many alternative worlds.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.
Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I found various people or organisations protesting against something.
As a child I was paid 50p by my family to sing/mime or put on little shows. They probably pay me #50 now to stop!
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.
I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potential for physical and mental development is the cruellest form of inequity.
And maybe that's being the third child, although my entire family are very resilient - very, very resilient.
I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
I had read the 'Wonder Woman' comic books when I was a child; I was much more interested in those than I was in 'Betty and Veronica,' even though I liked those as well.
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.
When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it's not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn't glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths.
We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'
'Boom Bang a Bang' was a huge part of me, maybe a part that I didn't relish, and there might be psychological reasons for that - I was a child being made to do things I didn't want to do. I was perhaps an elitist, a bit of a snob.
It was strange, especially because all of the projects I did when I was young, I was always the youngest on set or the only child, so I spent my formative years hanging out with 24-year-olds when I was 13.
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.
When I was a child, I had it in my head to play in the Champions League and win it.
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.
I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.
I have two younger sisters who are 11 years younger than me. So I was an only child for a while.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
I don't think that anyone can prepare for raising a child. I think it's one of those jobs that is far more overwhelming than you could ever expect and far more satisfying than you can ever expect.
I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.
'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.
What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
I was a problem child, and problem children do the seemingly insane because they are trying to find out how to fit into the scheme of things.
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
I think the arts are absolutely necessary for children to be creative and express themselves because every child is different.
As a child, I thought we had come to Mumbai for a holiday. I did not realise that this holiday was permanent.
I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.
I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.
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