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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were… — Drew Barrymore
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… — Roseanne Barr
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense,… — Drew Barrymore
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I… — Mario Batali
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. — Simone de Beauvoir
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck
Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. — Martha Beck
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help… — Martha Beck
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. — Isaiah Berlin
I think I am an adult. — Jacqueline Bisset
What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to… — Lewis Black
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year. — Elayne Boosler
Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was… — Jeff Bridges
We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We… — Herb Brooks
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in… — Julie Burchill
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. — Brian Aldiss
I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to… — Nicolas Cage
Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked… — Nicolas Cage
For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — Steve Carell
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then… — Elias Canetti
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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