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Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. -- Berkeley Breathed
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies. -- Stanislav Grof
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music. -- Sean Scully
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more. -- Helen McCrory
My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. -- Julian Fellowes
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him. -- Wally Schirra
I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood. -- Gene Luen Yang
I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late. -- Katherine Waterston
I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. -- Nicolas Cage
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. -- Isabel Allende
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood. -- Carlos Ghosn
Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault. -- Pamela Sargent
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? -- Gunter Grass
The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen. -- Paul Feig
I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God's Word that showed me I wasn't living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood. -- Joyce Meyer
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One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got. -- Lincoln Steffens
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood. -- Dexter Fletcher
I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on. -- Drew Barrymore
It's never to late for a happy childhood. -- Gloria Steinem
It is never too late to have a happy childhood -- Tom Robbins
the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... -- Stephen King
The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s. -- Ice Cube
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, and age only matters if you're a cheese. -- Rick Steves
She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. -- Alice Munro
This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. -- Margaret Atwood
There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood. -- Miquita Oliver
It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment. -- Peter Shepherd

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