Grew Up Quotes - Page 6

• I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice hockey player.

  Nicola Peltz

  Brother, Hockey, Player

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

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• You can't control who likes you. If I got Backstreet Boy fans what am I supposed to do? Turn them away? Whoever likes my stuff, likes my stuff but just know Slim Shady is hip hop, I grew up on hip hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

  Eminem

  Boys, Hip Hop, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Guy, Desire, Mcqueen

  "Mark Wahlberg: family man, business man, renaissance man" by Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

  Anna Kendrick

  Humble, Ambition, Humility

  "Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

  James McAvoy

  Hero, Fire, Play

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• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  Kate Bosworth

  Looks, Towns, Different

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• It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

  Lee Pace

  Reading, College, Numbers

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• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, People, Germany

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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 barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Grandparent, Temptation, Listening

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• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Jurassic Park, Leviathan, Parks

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• I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Aunt, House, Six

  "The Boss is back". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. April 16, 2003.

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cartoon, Adults, Grew

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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?'' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

  Harry Styles

  Way, Respect Women, Mum

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

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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 grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Grew

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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 around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

  Josh Turner

  Simple, People, Pleasure

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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 love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  Josh Turner

  Water, Tree, Black

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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 small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Towns

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