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Vanessa Mae Violinist, Singer
Kids

"Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition."

Thinking Kids Fruition
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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
Kids

"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"

Writing Kids Garden
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Virgil Miller Newton Author, Educator
Kids

"Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - marijuana - is not addictive."

Kids Beer Teenage
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Rebel Wilson Actress
Kids

"As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic."

Way Kids Shy
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Scott Cohen Actor
Kids

"Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life: your dreams, goals, hopes and aspirations, you are much more likely to achieve them. I have been writing down my goals since I was a kid, and I've had more success than I could have ever dreamed of... one goal at a time."

Writing Dream Kids
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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
Kids

"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."

Kids Drug Used
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Tim Roth Actor
Kids

"When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this."

Running Kids Hurt
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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Kids

"When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college."

Kids College Television Commercials
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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
Kids

"My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house."

Kids Baby Phones
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Tom Green Comedian, Actor, Writer
Kids

"I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop."

Real Kids Passion
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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
Kids

"People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown."

People Kids Father
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Tracy K. Smith Poet, Professor
Kids

"When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size."

Kids Father Garden
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