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[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
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.
As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.
When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'
Maybe God's goal wasn't for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.
It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.
When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.
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 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.
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'
There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.
With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.
I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting 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 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.
My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.
Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.
Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
In fact, writing for younger adults is tougher. They remember everything and if they spot a problem, they'll be sure to let you know.
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.
Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?
One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.
My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.
It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.
Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-
One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!
Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.
Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.
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.
I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.
I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.