Grew Up Quotes - Page 35

• I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Heaven, Earth, Rooms

  "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I grew up in an underprivileged home.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Home, Grew, Underprivileged

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• You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

  Dave Rowntree

  Kids, Parent, Safe

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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• When I grew up, I lived in the ghettos of Hollywood; it was the most disgusting place to be. I was known as the crazy little kid. I did impressions. Then I realized that's not what I want to do. I don't want to be a comedian to please other people.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Crazy, Kids, Ghetto

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• One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attention, so I grew up in my own world, playing in my room for hours and hours.

  Alex Kingston

  Parent, World, Rooms

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• I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

  Alison Krauss

  School, Band, Incredibles

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• I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

  Angela Kinsey

  Art, School, Theatre

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• I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Country, People, Way

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• I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Sides, Milwaukee, Alleys

  People Interview, people.com. May 21, 2001.

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• I grew up in Brooklyn.

  Johnny Kelly

  Brooklyn, Grew

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• I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Television, Entertainment, Countryside

  "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.

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• I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Mother, Skills, Made

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• All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

  Steve Kazee

  Mean, Broadway, Remember

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• I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

  Steve Kazee

  Country, Art, Towns

  "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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• I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Jazz, Grew

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• I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Jeans, Southern, Black

  "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

  Logan Lerman

  Growing Up, School, Maturity

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• My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.

  Logan Lerman

  Scoliosis, Week, Spine

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• Well, I grew up in a tough neighborhood.

  Kent McCord

  Tough, Neighborhood, Wells

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• I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Church, Feels, Very Strong

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Moving, Europe, Want

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• I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Nice, Character

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• When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.

  Tia Mowry

  Real, College, Doctors

  Seventenn Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2007.

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• I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

  Tracy Morgan

  Blessed, Lucky, Brooklyn

  "Tracy Morgan Interview" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Teacher, Men, Rose

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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