"It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again."
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"People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls."
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"A lot of child actors think they need to re-invent themselves, especially young women. Usually what they do is they adopt a sort of overt sexuality. It's fine if they want to do that, but a lot of times I think they feel obliged to do that, and that is something that I don't think anybody should feel obliged to express."
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"I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius."
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"I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child."
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"I guess I was a philosophical child."
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"Do people think I'm cool because I was in a movie when I was a child? No. Well, maybe a little bit more than they used to. There's definitely a nostalgia factor."
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"I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better."
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"Children change a lot in terms of personality. Camaraderie that you feel with somebody might not be there a year later."
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"For many of us it is obvious that children are our ultimate investment, but unfortunately children are also the ultimate investment of the gun, tobacco and the liquor industries."
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"The situation with children is not good in America, nor in other countries. It may be much worse in other countries. It is not just because of the lack of money. It is the lack of the awareness that children are very open, smart and knowing people when they are still very little. Afterwards they close down. Then they become like everyone and we have to work again to open up."
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"I would tell to young people to sit on their heels. Children do that naturally so if they never had furniture they would do it. It's wonderful for all parts of the body."
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"You make love for the pleasure and the passion and for the love that two people have for each other. But then there is also this other thing. Are we going to make love to have a child? One has to be clear to do that."
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"Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being."
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"I call children "our ultimate investment.""
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"Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce."
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"The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child."
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"Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?"
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"If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list."
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"Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books."
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