Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. ”

When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately. ”

I'm not ready to retire, and I think I have some of the best music of my life coming up. ”

When I was growing up, I knew I wanted to be a mathematician, but I had no idea what that entailed. ”

In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator. ”

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from. ”

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead. ”

Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies. ”

You just have to make sure you're writing about something that's true. It has to be honest and it has to have a real emotion behind it, regardless of where it's coming from. ”

When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it. ”