Grew Up Quotes - Page 11

• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  House, Mourning, States

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  Lars von Trier

  Strong, Home, Emotion

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• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

  Alan Furst

  Reading, Degrees, Eric

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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• Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

  Norah Jones

  Texas, Classical Music, Grew

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• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Play, Turmoil

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• I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

  Chris Paul

  Football, Nba, Games

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Influence, States

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• I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Christmas, Mom, Rain

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• I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Growing Up, Father, Shoes

  “The Notorious Blago” by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

  Robert Ballard

  Friendship, Ocean, Kids

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• I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

  Curtis Stone

  Home, Love Is, Garden

  Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

  Allan Sloan

  Sarcastic, Writing, Sarcasm

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• I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

  Rick Atkinson

  Thank You, Country, Memorial Day

  "Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Mother, Father, Son

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• Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

  Angela Glover Blackwell

  Opportunity, Keys, Hands

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• I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

  Akinyele

  Rap, Animal, Thug

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• Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
  Won't fold under pressure...grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

  Extra P

  Rap, Hip Hop, Pressure

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• People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

  Janelle Monae

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Song, Sight, Singing

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• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Thinking, Singing, Security

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• Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

  Jane Campion

  Romantic, Independence, Today

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• Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from.

  Andrew Shue

  Senior, Soccer, School

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• I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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