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• When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

  David Duchovny

  Kids, Manhattan, World

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• I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

  Josh Duhamel

  Men, Hiking, Backyards

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• I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  Eric Davis

  Kissing, Negativity, Atmosphere

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

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• I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

  Janice Dickinson

  Ballet, Crafts, Study

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• I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Cities, Southern

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• I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.

  Park Chan-wook

  Catholic, Church, Week

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, White, Wagons

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  Vin Diesel

  People, Kind, Grew Up

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dust, Poverty, Spirit

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

  Junot Diaz

  Pain, Book, Writing

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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 grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Hero, Opportunity

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• When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Country, Play

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• We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

  Stephen Breyer

  San Francisco, California, Judging

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Thinking, Imagination

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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

  Junot Diaz

  Shadow, Saws, Grew Up

  "Old friends Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman talk shop". Interview with Miwa Messer, www.csmonitor.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

  Attitude, Games, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Community, Downtown

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

  Julie Burchill

  Pain, Real, Kids

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

  Tim Burton

  Simplicity, Childhood, Trying

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• I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

  Gary Busey

  Oklahoma, Texas, Grew Up

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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