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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."

"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."

"I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere."

"I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school."

"I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children."

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."


"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."


"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"


"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."


"There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work."
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