Youthful Passions Quotes

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19.

As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction.

When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to be both strong and civilized. Adolescents in such a community who were either too weak to control themselves or too contemptuous of society's norms to try usually ended up being either sheep or wolves- either mindless members of the herd or predators who took what they could and gave nothing.

I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.