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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Child Childhood Children Dolls Elves Fairies Me Myself Real Really Sort Things Very Were

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The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

~Anselm Kiefer

Topics: Any Around Bricks Buildings Built Childhood Clear Did Houses Me Played Project Reason Ruined Toys Which

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Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Asia Childhood Fantasies First First Time Fulfillment Grip Me Real Should Southeast Southeast Asia Time Travel Very Way

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I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Childhood Collector Comic Comics Draw Early Former Much Nerd Serious Teen Teen Years Underground Wanted Years

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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Characters Childhood Comfortable Golden Had Lonely Lot Sad Sort

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I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Age Always Better Brother Childhood Close Compete Competitive Enough Everything Faster Grew Had Me Older Older Brother Stronger Than Try Up Who

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I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

~Anthony Hopkins

Topics: Am America Back Childhood Citizenship Dream Dual Go Happens Just Least Like Live Obsessed Three Times Wales Week Would I Am I Am Back

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I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

~Anthony Hopkins

Topics: Am Back Childhood Dream Go Least Like Obsessed Three Times Wales Week Would I Am I Am Back

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I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Anymore Bedroom Brain Brain Surgery Childhood Days Fiction Good Had Here How Job Knew Know Nights Perform Retail Short Short Stories Sleeping Spent Stories Surgery Than Time Wanted While Working Write Writer Written

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Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

~Anthony Marra

Topics: Any Characters Childhood Deeper Deeper Meaning Grown Me Meaning Only Reading Regularity Return Two

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