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As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Book Boy Comics Describe Devoured Never Now Picture Picture Book Saw

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When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Around Books Boy Fit House Now Owned Several Shelf Single Stacked Thousand

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I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

~Anthony Hamilton

Topics: Afraid Any Boy Church Could Down Got Grandmother Heaven Just Moment Swing Switch

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I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

~Anthony Hopkins

Topics: Boy Bullied Get Grow Grow Up Hopefully Kids Lives Lots Most Our Our Lives Up Us

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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

~Anthony Lapaglia

Topics: Actor Alec Almost Boy Deal Great Great Deal Like Smart Too

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For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: After Boy Comic Comic Strip Daily Doctrine His John More Named Packed Preached Predestination Set Strip Stuffed Than Theologian Tiger Vocabulary Who Whose Words

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I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.

~Anthony Quinn

Topics: Anything Anything Else Boy Did Else Hey Indian Indians Me Mean Mexican Name Played Say Take Used Why You

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I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

~Anthony Warlow

Topics: Age Boy Had Half Natural Remember Say Soprano I Remember

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When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

~Antoine Fuqua

Topics: Area Boy Boys And Girls Club Competitions Girl Gloves Go Golden Growing Growing Up Had New New York Pittsburgh Program Those Through Up Washington Would York Younger

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I've never liked losing, ever since I was a boy in Macon, my hometown. I couldn't watch other teams lifting trophies.

~Antoine Griezmann

Topics: Boy Ever Hometown Lifting Liked Losing Never Other Since Teams Trophies Watch

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