Grew Quotes - Page 6

• I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Funeral, Mitzvah, Bars

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Queens, Children, School

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mom, Kings, Kids

  Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

  Edie Falco

  Fighting, Boys, Kind

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• I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Gun, Hands

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• I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Talking, People, House

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• I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

  Jerry Falwell

  Virginia, Grew Up, South

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• I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

  Vera Farmiga

  Children, Years, Grew Up

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• I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

  Vera Farmiga

  Christian, Catholic, My Family

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• If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Thinking, Would Be

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• I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

  Brett Favre

  Fans, Saint, Hours

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• I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

  Allyson Felix

  Christian, Home, Parent

  Interview with Mary Fairchild, www.thoughtco.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

  Will Ferrell

  Saws, Entertainment, Grew Up

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• It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

  Will Ferrell

  Nice, Stress, Shoes

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• I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Levers, Welcome

  "What Tina Wants". Interview with Maureen Dowd, www.vanityfair.com. January 2009.

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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• I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  M.F.K. Fisher (2012). “Love in a Dish . . . and Other Culinary Delights by M.F.K. Fisher”, p.76, Counterpoint Press

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• We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Funny, Music, Dream

  Zelda Fitzgerald (1992). “The Collected Writings”, New York : Collier Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

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• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  Jane Fonda

  Angel, Troops, Sides

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

  Jodie Foster

  Europe, Kind, Film

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• Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Differences, Numbers

  "Obama Takes On Market-Based Government" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2009.

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• I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

  Al Franken

  Engagement, Records, Treasure

  "Putting an End to Secret Campaign Contributions" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2012.

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• I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.

  David Guterson

  Grew Up, Wanted, Seattle

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• I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, School, Parent

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.

  Robert Griffin III

  Country, Military, Exercise

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