Grew Up Quotes - Page 19

• You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I'd had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

  Raekwon

  Mom, Father, Parent

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• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Towns

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• I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

  Carrie Underwood

  Queens, Listening, Littles

  "Carrie Underwood interview: 'I'm influenced by My Chemical Romance'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. April 26, 2012.

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• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Eye, Perception

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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• I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

  Max Cannon

  Military, Effort, Style

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• I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Successful, Intelligent

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• I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

  Tom Vilsack

  Thinking, Cities, Agriculture

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  Dwyane Wade

  Chicago, Jordan, Grew

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• I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

  Dwyane Wade

  College, Illinois, Cities

  "Dwyane Wade: Basketball Dad". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  Christopher Walken

  Speak English, Broken, People

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• By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

  Christopher Walken

  Queens, School, Names

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• I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, School, Kids

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Real, Thinking

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• I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Growing Up, Ukulele, Play

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

  Herschel Walker

  Senior, Sports, Believe

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• I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

  Murray Walker

  Parent, Sensible, Careful

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• I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Sunday, Church

  "Elizabeth Warren's Speech at the Democratic National Convention". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 5, 2012.

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• I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Doctors, Years

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• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

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• I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

  Jenny Agutter

  Lovely, Albums, Looks

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• I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Father, Artist, Parent

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  Laura Linney

  Sweet, Aunt, Remember

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Inspiring, Smart, Thinking

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• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  New York, Kids, Player

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