Grew Quotes - Page 4

• I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

  Allyson Felix

  Christian, Home, Parent

  Interview with Mary Fairchild, www.thoughtco.com. March 24, 2017.

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• I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Finest, Grew Up

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• I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

  Albert Camus

  Light, Able, Pleasure

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

  Albert Camus

  Sea, Luxury, Poverty

  Albert Camus (1968). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”

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• I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

  John le Carre

  Father, Book, Grew Up

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• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Retirement, Struggle, Thinking

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• During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, African American

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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 grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

  Steve Earle

  Hippie, Counter Culture, Grew Up

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• I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

  Phil Collins

  Sorry, Hate, Mean

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• Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

  Phil Collins

  Nice, Kids, Tired

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• I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.

  Phil Collins

  Week, Singles, Grew Up

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Moving, Boys, New Orleans

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• The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Teacher, Kids, Idols

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• I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

  Lauren Conrad

  Beach, Caring, Environment

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• I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

  Dane Cook

  Self, Anxiety, Panic Attacks

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

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• When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

  Cat Cora

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

  Billy Corgan

  House, Sticks, Emotion

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• I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

  Billy Corgan

  Grew Up, Suburbs, Associates

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• I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

  Simon Cowell

  Artist, Groups, Grew Up

  "Simon Cowell on One Direction's rise to stardom". Interview with Andy Greene, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, Iowa, Fiction

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• I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

  Justin Cronin

  Wall, War, Fall

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• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  Ice Cube

  Interesting, Enough, Grew Up

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, music.avclub.com. August 19, 2010.

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• For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.

  Louis C. K.

  Living My Life, Grew Up, Scales

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• I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

  Louis C. K.

  Movie, Crazy, Actors

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