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I had a very happy childhood.


Juan Antonio Bayona
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If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.


Tracy Kidder
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.


Fran Drescher
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.


Maeve Binchy
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.


Kinky Friedman
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.
Erin Gruwell
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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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I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.
Maeve Binchy
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.


Gertrude Stein
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Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.


Carol Ann Duffy
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Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
Joyce Maynard
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.


W. Somerset Maugham
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
Naeem Khan
I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.
Tomie dePaola
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My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
Beth Moore
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
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I had a picture-perfect childhood.


Kelly Ripa
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I had an amazing childhood.


Abbie Cornish
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
Joni Mitchell
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