Grew Up Quotes - Page 29

• I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

  Connie Britton

  Mother, Teacher, Singing

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

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• I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

  Sandra Oh

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. March 23, 2005.

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• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  Lily Collins

  Jobs, Knowing, Understanding

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Mom, Quirky

  "From Her Spice Girls Obsession To Her Signature Eyebrows, Get To Know Hollywood Darling Lily Collins!". Interview with Laren Brown, www.glamour.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

  Toni Collette

  Long, Sound, Doe

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• I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Twenties, Teens, World

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• In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Mind, Would Be

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.7, Diversion Books

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• I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

  Connie Nielsen

  Inspirational, Funny, Light

  "Connie Nielsen: Inspired by the city of her dreams". Interview with Mark Tutton, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

  George Clooney

  Dad, Dating, Television

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• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  Olivia Munn

  Girl, Military, School

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com. April 30, 2010.

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• But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.

  Tea Leoni

  New York, Grew, I Can

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

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• I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

  Jon Lovitz

  Father, Nice, Struggle

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Hustle And Bustle, Kenya, Nairobi

  "'Mysterious and magical': Lupita Nyong'o on the power of performance". Interview with Stephanie Elam, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2014.

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• I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

  River Phoenix

  Way, Innocence, Projects

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

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• I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit

  Tony Goldwyn

  Names, Hollywood, Detroit

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• I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.

  Simon Baker

  Growing Up, Ocean, Space

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• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Country, Radio, Farms

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• I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

  Bo Derek

  Dream, Beach, Horse

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

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• I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.

  Michael Biehn

  Arizona, Grew, Buddy

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• I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn't hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio.

  Robert Stack

  Years, Radio, Mediums

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• I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Order, Tennessee, Louis Vuitton

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  Pam Grier

  Appearance, Emphasis, Grew

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• What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

  Jeremy London

  Baseball, Giving, Trying

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• I grew up thinking that if I wanted to go be prime minister, I could.

  Caroline Rhea

  Thinking, Prime, Ministers

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