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• I’d spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

  Julian Cope

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• Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

  Bruce Robinson

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• I’m a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!

  Ray Park

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• When I played Darth Maul, it sort of came from inside. I’m not saying it was natural, but I really enjoyed it, and I think I was tapping into my childhood, growing up with ‘Star Wars.’ And I grew up with G.I. Joe as well. Same as ‘Thundercats’ and ‘Transformers’ and ‘He-Man.’ And so I think it was the inner kid in me just came out.

  Ray Park

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  All of us are products of our childhood.

  Michael Jackson

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• I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

  Tom Hooper

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• There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

  Bernard Hill

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• I have never – I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

  Oscar Hijuelos

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• I remain very much connected to my childhood… I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

  Hugh Hefner

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• My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don’t relax because I don’t know how. I don’t want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

  Susan Hayward

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• If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who ‘did all that stuff to you’ were just as frightened and scared as you are.

  Louise L. Hay

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• Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that’s why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

  Robert Charles Wilson

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• We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

  Shane Koyczan

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• I used to have Bible studies at my house. I was in the choir. I was mischievous but also a real mama’s boy. It was a pretty happy childhood.

  Woody Harrelson

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• Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

  Mariska Hargitay

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• My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

  Matt Damon

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  I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

  Sigmund Freud

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• My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there’s a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.

  Eric Stonestreet

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• I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

  Patti Smith

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• I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn’t.

  Anthony Shadid

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