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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

~Gaby Hoffmann

Topics: Artistic Childish Creativity Destined Dismissed Drawings Efforts Emphasis Fairly Grown-Ups Had Huge Kids Loose Make Never Our Parents Placed Potential Raising Refrigerator Sense Simply Something Us Value Way Were

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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Actor Behavior Child Childish Comic Comics Derive Doing Force Great Lot Main Most Say Silly Silly Things Things Would You

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I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Childish Country Even Fiction Genre Lots Mccarthy Means Men No Country Novels Old Old Men Pretty Read Regard Seemed Shooting

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Dying people often become childish.

~Georg Buchner

Topics: Become Childish Dying Often People

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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

~George W. S. Trow

Topics: Adult Agreements Childish Competence Effectively Enforce Men Most Most Powerful Power Powerful Those Used Were Who

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A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

~Geri Halliwell

Topics: Childish Children Got Lot Me Natural People Said Speaks Think Voice I Think

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