Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 122

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
 Viola Davis
He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
 Therese of Lisieux
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
 Tobias Wolff
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
 Goswami Kriyananda
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
 Billy Corgan
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.
 Eugene Jarecki
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
 Anthony Giddens
Now that I'm a free agent I mean to make my own choices, and explain them to nobody if that's what pleases me.
 James Blish
I love to communicate, and I love music. That\'s why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
 Andrew Solomon
Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting.
 Will Smith
I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future.
 Joan Miro
We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.
 Leslie Morgan Steiner
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.
 Jean Berko Gleason
I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.
 Naya Rivera
The interest of the public is never better advanced than when we can inculcate by our rules the advantage of acting honestly.
I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.
 Roger Moore
It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren\'t they? Acting\'s weird.
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
 Celia Imrie
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.