• During Talk Time, before bed, my father sometimes told me stories of his own childhood adventures.

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  • Searching the pain of his own childhood gave Seidler the words he needed for "The King's Speech, " he said.

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  • When he finally gets an allotment, he starts delving into the soil and uncovers forgotten fragments of his own childhood.

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  • He has described his own childhood as being "shattered" by the Troubles, most significantly the murder of a cousin who was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

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  • In his brief opening remarks, Kennard reflected on the dramatic changes in media since his own childhood in the 1960s, when TV was dominated by three networks, and his mother controlled his viewing habits.

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  • Lula's special interest in hunger no doubt reflects his own childhood experience, but was also inspired by household-income surveys suggesting that up to 50m Brazilians almost 30% of the population do not earn enough to buy sufficient food.

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  • It's easy to see why the material spoke to the director: With his painterly filmmaking style, his characteristic interest in the intersection between longing and restraint, and his ongoing fascination with the early postwar England of his own childhood, Davies has been able to shape the stage play to his strengths, telling the story from Hester's point of view.

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  • His own rootless childhood had made him extremely self-sufficient, and his natural confidence - some would say arrogance - has made him very sure about his own abilities and opinions.

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  • But as the children got older, Kendall began to compare their childhood unfavorably with his own, and to feel guilty.

    NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

  • His behavior reminded Aryeh Zelnik of his own habit, dating back to childhood, of opening every closed door and checking to see what lay hidden behind it.

    NEWYORKER: Heirs

  • Obama (who, through no fault of his own, did not have a secure childhood) does not.

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  • His childhood habit of washing his own clothes continued, but the results from fabric whiteners were disappointingly the same: patchy and blueish.

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  • Solomon never addresses the question of aspiration head on his book is not that prescriptive but, reading it, I found myself thinking about my own childhood.

    NEWYORKER: Little Strangers

  • He spoke of his childhood as a military brat, of his father's heroism in wartime and his mother's own heroics while Dad was away.

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