Grew Quotes - Page 10

• I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Rocks, Play

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• Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

  Joan Jett

  Falling In Love, Party, Writing

  "A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a 'Runaway'". Interview With Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

  Jewel

  Bars, Grew Up

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• I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

  Elton John

  Mind, Conservative, Grew Up

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.

  Elton John

  Beautiful, Weed, Hate

  "Elton John Interview GNOMEO AND JULIET". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Happy Kid, Would Be

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• Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  War, Food, Anxiety

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

  Norah Jones

  Dad, Problem, My Sister

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• You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

  Rashida Jones

  Stories, Way, Comedy

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• I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

  Tony Judt

  World, Social, States

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• I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

  Jay-Z

  Mom, House, Soul

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• It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Would Be, Professors

  "This much I know: Daniel Kahneman". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.

  Michio Kaku

  Children, Reading, Book

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• I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

  Mindy Kaling

  People, Romance, Nerd

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

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• I grew up in New York, I love New York.

  Caroline Kennedy

  New York, Grew Up, I Love New York

  "More Caroline: Spoke to Hillary, won't run if not selected". Interview With Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 26, 2008.

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• I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Father, Reading

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• I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grandmother, Piano, Singing

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• I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

  Kesha

  Hair, Purple, Clothes

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

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• I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

  Alicia Keys

  Tough, Grew Up, Neighborhood

  "Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 3, 2014.

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• I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Fall, Who I Am

  "I was just waiting for my time". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2007.

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• I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

  Alicia Keys

  Morning, Home, Three

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• I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Stars, Rocks, People

  Interview With Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I grew six inches in a year.

  Karlie Kloss

  Years, Six, Inches

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• I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  School, Yearbook, Church

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