Growing Up Quotes - Page 18

• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  Bette Midler

  Mother, People, Looks

  "Oprah Talks to Bette Midler". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2001.

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• When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Children, Parent, Age

  "How Michelle Monaghan Stays Grounded and Gorgeous". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.health.com. October 28, 2011.

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• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Gun, Blue

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.

  Natascha McElhone

  Husband, Thinking, Years

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

  Matt Bomer

  Artist, Past, Who I Am

  "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

  Angela Kinsey

  Art, Kids, Thinking

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• I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

  Kirsten Nelson

  Couple, Carnegie, Concerts

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• When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.

  Stephanie March

  Children, Squares, Adults

  "‘¿Por qué me Quieres?’ Reflections on the 2010 World of Children Awards" by Stephanie March, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

  Daniella Monet

  Brother, Kids, Skateboarding

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• I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

  Bryan Batt

  Lakes, New Orleans, Grew Up

  "'Mad Men's' Bryan Batt takes your questions". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Dad, Imagination, Interesting

  "Shiloh Fernandez Exclusive Interview RED RIDING HOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  Chuck Connors

  Believe, Kids, World

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

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• I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

  Rick Gonzalez

  Mom, Inspiration, Thinking

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• There may be something in the fact that when I was a little kid I'd been told growing up that we had some degree of native American blood in us, I always found that a point of pride. So, when it came to cowboys and Indians I most certainly did not want to be John Wayne. I wanted to be one of the Indians.

  Johnny Depp

  Native American, Kids, Pride

  "The Lone Ranger - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Girly, Running, Mean

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• It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down

  Selena Gomez

  Cutting, People, Earth

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Opportunity, America

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• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Garlands, Leonardo, Courses

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with How to Succeed's Tammy Blanchard". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

  Maureen Daly

  House, Sides, Stranger

  Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”

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• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  Babs Deal

  Growing, Adulthood

  BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”

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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Watches, Nightmare, Horror

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• Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

  Vincent Piazza

  Suits, Burden, Wearing A Suit

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• My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

  Laurie Metcalf

  Illinois, Southern, Far Away

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laurie Metcalf". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

  Erin Wasson

  Thinking, Design, Inspire

  "Supermodel & Designer Erin Wasson on Her Collection, Role in Sofia Coppola’s Next Film & Kissing Justin Timberlake". Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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• It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

  Bailey Chase

  Chicago, Eras, Jordan

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