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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.

~Aasif Mandvi

Topics: Actor Adulthood American Been Born England English Feel Grew Helps Indian Inform Inside Kind Like Me Mumbai Person Some States Stuffed Then Things Think Those Up Way Which I Think I Feel I Feel Like I Was Born

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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

~Adam Savage

Topics: Adulthood Care Consequences Defining Going Heavy Here Lifting Moments Nobody Realization Suffer Take Take Care Think Well While You I Think

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Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.

~Adrian Peterson

Topics: Adulthood Age Be Strong Been Brother Car Childhood Christ Different Front Got Had He Hit Jesus Jesus Christ Lost Many Me Means Mom Now Right Situations Strong Through World Young Young Age

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Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Adulthood Axis Both Child Different Each End First Long Love Loved May Mean Once Parent Party Want Were Why

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Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.

~Alexandra Robbins

Topics: About Actually Admire Adulthood Cause Differences Excluded Going Many Other People Person Qualities Respect Same School Skills Students Value

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What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adulthood Answer Children Deal Earlier Good Good Deal Happens Later Puberty Reach Teenage Weirdness

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My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

~Amanda Donohoe

Topics: Adulthood Alone Amuse Developed Fantasy Fantasy World Go Grew Had Happily Helped Lived Love Me My Own Myself Off Often Older Own Quite Sense Sister Than Think Up Wonderful World Would I Think I Love

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When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

~Andrew Solomon

Topics: Able Adulthood Be True Because Been Children Fact Family Gay Growing Growing Up Hoping Kept Long Myself Nicest Period Really Surprise Through Tortured True Up Wanted

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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Across Adult Adulthood Age American Average Consistent Data Discovered Go Grit Hand Now Pattern Provide Scale Scores Snapshot Tend Than Thousands Turn Who

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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.

~Ann Cotton

Topics: Adulthood Breed Business Children Choosing Could Decided Donate Earn First Girl Given Goats Grant Her Herself Kids Meat Milk Money Named Opportunity Orphan Own Recall Resources Sell She Start Stepping Who Young

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