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I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: Children Doing Done Kids Like Lot Love People Shows Working I Love

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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Always Assume Children Come Conception Grinding Halt Lives Parents Sexual

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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Children Closer Grass Ground Now Were

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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Children Dickens Had Humanity Me Never Off Put Quite Soon Took Were

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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

~Alan Dean Foster

Topics: Beings Check Children Difficult Elaborate Even Fabricate Fantasies Games Getting Human Human Beings Inside Mind Out Particular Popular Revenge Species Terrorist Video Video Games

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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Ancestors Asian Characteristic Children Cultures Does Example Favor For Example Grandparents Piety Really Resonate Who Worship

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When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

~Alan Keyes

Topics: Beings Cannot Children Control Culture Educational Effect Entertainment Freedom Give Human Human Beings Impression Media Our Passions Telling Them Through Trusted

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Our children were trained to look after each other.

~Alan Ladd

Topics: After Children Each Look Other Our Trained Were

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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Adult Become Books Call Children Clue Containing Costume Delicate Entire Even Hands Held Massive Me More Narrative Only Out Persuaded Phone Phone Call Rowling She Since Small Surest Than Though Three Time Unchanging Were

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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: About Because Children Explained Get Harry Harry Potter Hate Many Never Potter Private Rob Something Talk Talking Them Things Think Too Would I Think

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