I've been called 'paranoid,' 'schizophrenic,' 'the wild child of Silicon Valley.'
I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is to do all we can without any expectation of results.
I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
'Sesame Street' was built on the idea that a show that could capture a child's attention could also give the child an education. That idea turned out to be wildly successful.
As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.
Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.
I was a bit of a sickly child!
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
'Beasts of No Nation' began when I read an article about child soldiers in Sierra Leone during my final year of high school.
The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.
I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.
I find it fascinating how hip hop as a culture mirrors every mythology from the beginning of mythology. The concept of the single mother and child - the Madonna concept. Hip-hoppers were raised in that.
When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn't the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new mother I was supposed to be.
I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.
I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.
