Grew Up Quotes - Page 3

• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Cnn, News

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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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• 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 on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Grew

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• This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

  Josh Turner

  Simple, People, Pleasure

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• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Tennessee, Mules

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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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• Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

  John Updike

  Art, Exercise, Men

  "A Few Words In Defense Of The Amateur Reader" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. February 19, 1984.

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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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• I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Stupid, Home, Heaven

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.495, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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• You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

  George Takei

  Two, Young, Camps

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

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• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mixing, Watches, Stories

  Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2003.

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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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• 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 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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• 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 like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  Josh Turner

  Girl, Country, Real

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• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

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• I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

  Mike Trout

  Couple, Atmosphere, Trout

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

  Charlize Theron

  Makeup, Thinking, People

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• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Anger, Saws

  "Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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