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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they're going through a lot as a young adult.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
One of my favorite things about 'Spring Awakening' is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.
I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my mid-twenties.
That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things, too.
Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.
Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.
You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.
I started wrestling when I was 19 years old, and I spent my entire adult life on the road chasing this dream, and I loved it.
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
As an adult, my hero is my dog, Mouse. He is so friendly to everyone he meets. He wags his tail and loves everyone, like Jesus!
Yes, I have benefited from the ObamaCare provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.
Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines.
I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.
I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Every kid goes through puberty, wondering what to do about girls and struggling with homework, and every adult has been through that.
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
What was weird, as a 12-year-old actor, was being expected to behave like an adult while still being treated as a kid everywhere else.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.