Grew Quotes - Page 40

• I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

  Jerry Herman

  Vision, Want, Kind

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• 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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• I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

  Eminem

  Listening, Shots, Crew

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

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• I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.

  Jordana Brewster

  New York, Thinking, Chicago

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

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• Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.

  Wayne Newton

  Vegas, Together, Done

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• I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

  Harry Belafonte

  School, West Indies, Students

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• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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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, Grew Up

  "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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• In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around; And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Learning, Skills, Sound

  Oliver Goldsmith, John Mitford (1851). “The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.42

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• I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Years, America

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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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• I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

  Rihanna

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Vicky Pryce and Isabel Oakeshott's horrible parody of female friendship" by Sarah Ditum, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one

  Mario Lopez

  Supportive, Problem, Grew Up

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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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• I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Hard Times, Hands

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

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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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• I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Grew Up

  "Julie Gonzalo Talks DALLAS, Working with the Original Cast, and Her Favorite Fights This Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, People, Pasta

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

  Armie Hammer

  Home, School, Islands

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

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• I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mother, Book, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

  Ashley Scott

  Missing, South Carolina, Different

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