"Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers……" — Russell Smith
"Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe."
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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