Grew Up Quotes - Page 30

• I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

  John Tesh

  Parent, Musician, Radio

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• I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Children, Pregnancy, Men

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• I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

  Juliet Stevenson

  Father, Army, Years

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• I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

  Daniella Monet

  Sports, Extremes, Grew

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• I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

  Steve Kanaly

  Television, Roger, Film

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• My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.

  Joan Van Ark

  Brother, House, Mark

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• I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

  Adrian Grenier

  New York, Escaping, Twins

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  Natasha Richardson

  Childhood, Feelings, World

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• The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it just kind of happened. I blame it all on my mom who was still dancing on stage with me when she was however many months pregnant. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.

  Ksenia Solo

  Mom, Dad, Funny Things

  "Exclusive! ‘Black Swan’ Star Ksenia Solo Talks Nat Portman — and Chanel!". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I grew up on a tiny little island.

  Samantha Barks

  Islands, Littles, Tiny

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• I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Important, Way, Lifestyle

  "Hollywood’s hottest husband is Chris O’Donnell, see poll" by Cathy Heys, www.irishcentral.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

  Petra Nemcova

  Dream, Freedom Of Speech, Communism

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  John McGahern

  Class, People, Catholic

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

  Morgan Brittany

  Growing Up, Children, Teenager

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• I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

  Ken Blanchard

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  Gary Cole

  Fear, Real, Apocalypse

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• I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

  Emily Watson

  Book, Television, Grew

  "Making waves" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2000.

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• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

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• I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

  John Lone

  Mother, Father, Home

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

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• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

  John Lone

  Art, Age, Identity

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• I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

  John Lone

  Mother, Insecure, Thinking

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• I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

  Sean William Scott

  Kindness, Nice, Shopping

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• I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Couple, Blow, Years

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  Navid Negahban

  War, Impact, Iran

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