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• Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

  Margaret Cho

  Running, Keys, Childhood

  "It Gets Better: How I Overcame Childhood Bullying" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ideas, Revelations, Grew Up

  "Understanding Deepak Chopra’s Vision Of Muhammad". Interview with Nicole Neroulias, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  Madonna Ciccone

  School, People, Outsiders

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• I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

  Eric Clapton

  Spiritual, Clubs, Grew Up

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• I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

  Diablo Cody

  Careers, Midwest, Realistic

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• I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

  J. Cole

  Long, Guy, Age

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• When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  Gail Collins

  America, People, Grew Up

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 1, 2010.

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• I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

  Gail Collins

  Mother, Home, Pride

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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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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• 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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