"I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here."
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"I grew up on a Christmas tree farm with all this space to run around, and the [freedom] to be a crazy kid with tangled hair."
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"Kids are really cruel."
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"If I have a weakness, it's that I try to live by the rules. I try to live by the rules, no matter what they are, and I was brought up that way as a kid. Play by the rules."
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"I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids."
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"I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid."
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"My first wedding was 15 people at our condo. The second was maybe about a hundred people at this fabulous casino. And you know what? I have almost no pictures of the second one, because I put disposable cameras on the tables, because everyone said, "The best pictures are the most candid! The best pictures are the ones people just take!" So, I put disposable cameras on the tables, and guess what? There were so many kids there that those cameras were stomped on. I had so many pictures of the floor, of people's eyes, of someone's finger."
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"You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire."
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"I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church."
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"When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves."
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"I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book."
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"No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids."
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"There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway."
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"Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way."
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"I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children."
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"I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black teenager."
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"When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing."
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"Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!"
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"Europe were kind of the first ones to embrace my music; the kids from around the way would come out to my shows and really enjoy it."
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"When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased."
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