Attention Quote by Eavan Boland

I was a disruptive child.

— Allyson Felix

As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as…

— Sue Perkins

I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid,…

— Cinco Paul

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

— Tom Sizemore

When I was very, very young - four, five, six - I could see inside people, their motives, their dreams, their apprehension of reality.

— Frederick Lenz

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

— Jesse Metcalfe

I think as a teen who was thrust into the public eye pretty quickly, I got overwhelmed easily and felt constant pressure to be…

— Luke Hemmings

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”

— Terri Anne Browning

I was always a relatively quiet and introspective kid.

— Charles M. Blow

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”

— Julian Barnes

A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath…

— Gene Wolfe

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe…

— Michael J. Fox