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The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

~Andre Leon Talley

Topics: Chickens Childhood County Cured Door Front Grandmother Happiest Her Kitchen Moments Orange Outside Porch Screen Sister Spent Were Where

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When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because it meant becoming someone else.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: Because Becoming Boy Characteristics Childhood Else Ended Feminine Grow Grow Up Had Meant Someone Suppress Try Up Want

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For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.

~Andreja Pejic

Topics: After Androgyny Attractive Because Before Childhood Ended Expressed Felt Femininity Just Like Long Long Time Looking Mirror Much Really Through Time

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What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

~Andrew Lo

Topics: Childhood Difficulties Early Early Childhood Had Hard How Learn Learning Makes Mathematics Matter Ongoing Particularly Remarkable Remember Simply Story Struggled Table Throughout Times Tried I Tried

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When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

~Andrew O'Hagan

Topics: Back Basic Character Childhood Coast Devotion Human Human Nature Idea Look National Nature Recall Unknowable Weather

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The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.

~Andrew Stanton

Topics: Because Broke Childhood Could Destroy Happiest Impunity Moments Them Then Toys Were

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While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

~Andrew Vachss

Topics: Childhood Choice Compel Early Early Childhood End Evil Experiences In The End Matter May While

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I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

~Andrew Wiles

Topics: Cambridge Childhood Dates Days Early Early Childhood England Grew Love Mathematics Those Up

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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

~Andrew Wiles

Topics: Able Adult Adult Life Been Being Childhood Childhood Dream Dream Had Life Privilege Pursue Rare

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I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.

~Andrew Zimmern

Topics: Asia Being Business Childhood Dreamed Europe Food Foods Introduced Me Moment Parents Trips World

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