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I had a very happy childhood.


Juan Antonio Bayona
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If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.


Tracy Kidder
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.


Jonathan Coe
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.


Fran Drescher
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I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.


Kinky Friedman
I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama's boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.
Woody Harrelson
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The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
Erin Gruwell
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You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.


Dylan Moran
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
Naeem Khan
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.


Olivia Wilde
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I've done Broadway, and it was a fantastic experience, but I'm very happy in London. If work comes that involves going to America, that's fine, but otherwise, no.
Michelle Fairley
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.
Sarah Waters
My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.
David M. Evans
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I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.


Luke Evans
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.
Mary Oliver
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