Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood.
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Since an early age I was taught to be very politically aware and knew from childhood that the process was something I wanted to contribute towards if I could.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.