Parenting Analogy Quotes

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

You work with every actor differently. It's like if you're a mother, if you have children, some children need more discipline. Other children, you back off of a little bit and let them be. It's the same way with actors. Some actors need a lot of hand holding. Other actors like to be let be, and you let them go.

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

When you're making an album, it's kind of like having a baby. You have to really put everything into it.

Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.

You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.

Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.

My kitchen is my baby. I don't have kids, so cooking is sort of like my child. Renovating my kitchen has allowed me to channel my creativity the way parents work on a nursery. The centerpiece is my vintage 1950s Wedgewood stove.

I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.