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I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.

~Adam Silvera

Topics: All My Time Because Definitely Devoted Friends Generation Harry My Time Read Reading Really Teen Teen Years Throughout Time Writing Years

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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

~Adam Smith

Topics: Absorb After Changes Detail Doing Facts Generation Greatest Greatest Number Must Number Observation Opinion Persist Rule Theory Through

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In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

~Adele Exarchopoulos

Topics: Able Admire Art Began English Everybody Generation Important Languages Like Lot Maybe Me Much Nice Our Our Generation People Portuguese Really Seven Spanish Speak Them Then Too Us Who

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I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

~Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Topics: Based Career Casting Casting Directors Did Directors Dramas Foundation Generation Great Just Know Me Most Movies Oz People Performance Place Producers Production Put Runners Show Television Think I Think

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

~Adhir Kalyan

Topics: Accent Acting Africa Because Color Community Democracy Different English Era Feeling First First Generation Found Generation Growing Growing Up Indian Living Myself New Often Only Otherwise Person School South South Africa Teacher Teens Training Up Very Within

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Absurdity Another Becomes Generation Height Often Seems Which Wisdom

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

~Adlai E. Stevenson

Topics: Dates Generation Man Nothing Younger Younger Generation

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I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!

~Adoniram Judson

Topics: After Edward Evening Every Father Generation Genius Giants Henry Himself His Hold Meeting Repeat Rising Say Takes Time Twinkle

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How can our industry better represent the reality of our larger community and provide our next generation a proper example of what they see around them every single day? This representation should also look beyond race and include those of all body types, religion, sexuality, and gender identification.

~Adwoa Aboah

Topics: Also Around Better Beyond Body Community Day Every Every Single Day Example Gender Generation How Identification Include Industry Larger Look Next Next Generation Our Proper Provide Race Reality Religion Represent Representation See Sexuality Should Single Single Day Them Those Types

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At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: Age Around Contacts Device Every Generation Glasses Hip Knee Life Medical Need Person Point Prosthetic Replacement Some Us Whether Will You Your

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