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Childhood Memories Quotes

Childhood MemoriesCultural HeritageCultural PreservationFamily BondsLearning and Education As a kid, I was running around the conservatory, playing with my grandparents' students who were like babysitters, taking cello and piano lessons, eating good food, and making sure I didn't completely forget my Chinese every summer.

Childhood MemoriesCinema AppreciationLove for MoviesPersonal InspirationScience Fiction 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

Denis Villeneuve

Filmmaker
Childhood MemoriesCinemaCultural ImpactInfluence of MediaScience Fiction I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.
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Duncan Jones

Director
AdmirationChildhood MemoriesFameInfluenceSports I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

J. Cole

Rapper and songwriter
Childhood Memories When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

Larry Bird

American former basketball player and coach
Childhood MemoriesCollectingMedia InfluenceNostalgiaPop Culture When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.

Ryan Gosling

Actor