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I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.
If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.
I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?
You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
It's hard to change adults, and it's hard to change it from a political position or a perceived political position.
Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.
I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.
You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.
I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six years old again.
As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You gotta do something. Show us what you have.
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.
The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?
I think Anderson Cooper is an opinionated, hypocritical idiot who should be an adult and keep his opinion to himself.
It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.
For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.