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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard! -- Maddie Hasson
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books. -- Barbara Park
When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. -- Willie Geist
Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different. -- Twiggy
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. -- Carl Jung
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. -- Juan Antonio Bayona
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. -- Lorna Luft
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to. -- Lauren Myracle
Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster. -- Philip Dunne
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. -- Herbert Gold
I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I don't believe any lip shade is off-limits, but texture is key. A sheer lipstick in a healthy pink or neutral color looks more polished and grown-up than a super-shiny gloss. -- Bobbi Brown
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough. -- Charles Kuralt
I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up. -- Kate Bush
I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family. -- Penn Jillette
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For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. -- Meghan Daum
I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak. -- Jill Scott
If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. -- Kevin Bacon
I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. -- Amy Adams
I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we're always playing a form of dress-up - it's just a grown-up, much chicer version of it. It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be. -- Jason Wu
I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. -- Graeme Base
Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff. -- Drew Barrymore
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right. -- Gayle King
Grown-up people can wait. -- Ann Landers
I like grown up comedy. -- Aisha Tyler
I have grown up loving Shakespeare. -- Ralph Fiennes
Now there's a grown-up swinging town. -- Frank Sinatra
Adults are only kids grown up -- Walt Disney
I've aged, but grown up? No. -- Jake Lloyd
I want to write about grown-up things. -- Nicola Griffith
I've matured, maybe, but not grown up. -- Tre Cool
Only grown-up men are scared of women. -- Ernest Lehman
To become historically-minded is to be grown-up. -- James Harvey Robinson
I've grown up with dogs and love dogs. -- Stephanie Zimbalist
I still feel like I haven't grown up. -- David Duchovny
I've grown up watching football my whole life. -- Marisa Miller
I've grown up in the press my entire life. -- LeAnn Rimes
Aren't grown up people just little children at heart? -- Adolphe Menjou
Being grown-up is boring. Besides, I don't get jazz. -- Patrick Star
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. -- George Orwell
There's no such thing as a grown up person. -- Andre Malraux
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I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'. -- Jake Lloyd
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. -- Charles Olson
Now I'm grown up and playing in a band. -- Ray Davies
If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums. -- Andy Summers
Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up -- Lewis Carroll
Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible. -- Upamanyu Chatterjee
You can't be a grown-up woman and not like chocolate. -- Julie Dawn Cole
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books, -- Barbara Park
I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO. -- Angela Ahrendts
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. -- James M. Barrie
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. -- James M. Barrie
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. -- Rick Derringer
I have grown up in the bright light of America. -- John Edwards
I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not. -- Victoria Tennant
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You've grown up, girl. You've grown up real nice, Welcome home -- Elizabeth Chandler
It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child. -- Claire Tomalin
It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up ... -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. -- Bob Lemon
When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. -- Willie Geist
You know you're grown up when summer is just a season. -- Michael Greger
I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss. -- Penelope Wilton
I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing. -- Arthur C. Clarke
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. -- Lorna Luft
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. -- Christopher Morley
Lots of women don't realize that they're gay until they're grown up. -- Clare Balding
In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up. -- Jay Nordlinger
My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's. -- Mary Pope Osborne
I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up. -- Lesley Nicol
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. -- Carl Sagan
In the child, we see the grown-up. I see the problem differently. -- Otto Ohlendorf
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture. -- James Patterson
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up. -- D. B. Sweeney
Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. -- George Orwell
Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood. -- Marian Gold
If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up. -- Eda LeShan
You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust. -- Sonia Rykiel
Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head. -- C. S. Lewis
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. -- Vanessa Mae
My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them. -- Candace Cameron
When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions. -- John Slattery
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up. -- Cat Deeley
I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering. -- Michael Winter
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth. -- Wendy Wasserstein
In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern. -- Shirley MacLaine
Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people. -- Daniel Radcliffe
When had Eden grown up? I feel like I blinked and missed it. -- Marie Lu
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd grown up -- Eve Babitz
I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part. -- Matt Kemp
My kindness is the old version of my life, I have grown up. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them. -- Bruce Feirstein
I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up. -- Kristen Bell
I do find it bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up. -- Mandy Moore
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. -- Will Estes
Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby. -- Sharon Stone
[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces. -- Emily Giffin
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. -- Elia Kazan
I think being a dad is scary. I mean, I'm not that grown-up myself. -- Howie Mandel
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. -- Robert Fulghum
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk. -- Edward Abbey
All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window. -- Archie Shepp
I want to hear people say, "Oh, he's matured. He's a grown up now". -- Seungri
People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. -- Anne Tyler
You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it. -- Henry Hopper
What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature? -- Steven Moffat
I felt very grown up when I was wearing makeup, thank you very much. -- Nick Rhodes
There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. -- John Wyndham
As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts. -- David Sedaris
I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up. -- Brian Wilson
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. -- Antoine Rivarol
Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. -- Warren Spector
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies. -- James M. Barrie
I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that. -- Julie Walters
Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it. -- Ruby Bridges

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