When I began my practice, I said I'm going to be a pediatrician that really thinks about and understands a child's educational trajectory.
I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
I have dreamed of Brazil all my life. As a child, I had videos of Brazil, of their World Cup wins, of Pele, and of all the big players.
Imagine if we can just talk to our computers and have it understand, 'Please schedule a meeting with Bob for next week.' Or if each child could have a personalized tutor. Or if self-driving cars could save all of us hours of driving.
Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.
I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.
I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.
