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Tag Name "Adult" (887)

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Nothing ensures the success of the child more in the society than being read to from infancy to young adulthood. Reading books to and with children is the single most important thing a parent, grandparent, or significant adult can do.
Anita Silvey
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Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.
Nathan Deal
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I was just dying to get out of the constraints of television, and the constraints of the parts I'd been playing. I had taken a bunch of improv classes and was performing with The Groundlings. I wanted to get into more adult, risky stuff.
Tim Matheson
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I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.
Lana Parrilla
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So we went off and made this movie [Jim Younger], and I've gotta tell ya, it's as much fun as I've ever had making a movie. It was kind of like adult summer camp. We put on this Western gear, strapped on our six-shooters, and went out and played cowboy all day! It wasn't an easy shoot.
Keith Carradine
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One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.
Sara Shandler
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The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life
Willard Gaylin
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The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
Dian Fossey
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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
Nicholson Baker
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But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
Eva Figes
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When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.
Alice Mattison
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I'm working on a young adult novel. I've been working on it for a while, because I don't know how to write a novel and I'm teaching myself. For that reason, I've been reading a lot of YA [young adults], which I never have before. It's totally new to me.
Morgan Parker
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I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.
Rick Steves
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I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.
Elliot Perlman
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I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult
Jeff Smith
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Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.
Billy Graham
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Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
Neil Gaiman
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To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry
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You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.
Terry Rossio
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
Roseanne Barr
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Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
Mother Teresa
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The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
Hayao Miyazaki
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