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children book writing
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. David Walliams
children bathroom comedy
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.
children book literature
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
children creativity character
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
children book hands
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
children different unusual
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. David Rockefeller
children cities people
One of the things people are fleeing when they leave the city is the need either to reject people who are less well educated than themselves, or to accept them with all that implies for their children's education and future placement in the society. David Riesman
children cities doctors
The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.
children memories grandmother
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action. David Henry Hwang
smell succeed toilets
I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell. David Reuben
smell i-can knows
I know,I can smell it, too, Deborah Harkness
smell want asking
How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade... Dennis Lehane
smell light childhood
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. Alain de Botton
smell people ignored
Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
smell feelings chemicals
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. Charles Kingsley
smell taste should
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons. Charles Darwin
smell rejection hot
She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window. Bob Dylan
smell kicks
The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells. Barbara Stanwyck
littles oscars tomorrow
I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow. Benicio Del Toro
littles quiet little-time
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be. Bear Grylls
littles firsts courageous
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do. Audre Lorde
littles more-time
Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. Arnold Bennett
littles may rich
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
littles wanted
I've always wanted to act since I was little. Alanna Ubach
littles ants
We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant. Alanis Morissette
littles too-much deny
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied. Blaise Pascal
littles comfort little-things
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.