Growing Up Quotes - Page 19

• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Inspired

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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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• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Mother, Cat, My Birthday

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. May 19, 2012.

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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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• When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Mom, Mexican, Black

  "Dinaw Mengestu on 'All Our Names'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. March 21, 2014.

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• Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, Eye

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2971, Delphi Classics

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• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Russia, Sick

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• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Thinking, Mortality, Should

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Reading, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.

  Derrick Rose

  Mom, Hurt, Brother

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• For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

  Alice Sebold

  Thinking, Evil, Heaven

  "PW Talks with Alice Sebold". Interview with Ann Darby, www.publishersweekly.com. Jun 17, 2002.

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• I had a lovely time growing up.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Lovely, Growing

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• I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.

  David Henry Hwang

  Hair, Chinese, Details

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• I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

  Joe Torre

  Kids, Brooklyn, Uniforms

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• It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].

  Richard Simmons

  Dream, Teaching, School

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Mom, Mean, Home

  "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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• When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.

  Meek Mill

  Song, Track, Guy

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• People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

  Jill Abramson

  Dog, New York, Cities

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• As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

  Grace Meng

  Daughter, New York, Cities

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• I am still in touch with my Secret Service agents, most of whom are retired now. They really get to be your friends. They watched me grow up, and most of them had little kids, so I was kind of giving them a warm-up of what was coming.

  Susan Ford

  Kids, Giving, Secret

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• A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

  Heather O'Neill

  Children, Cities, Parent

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• Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Father, Home, Mean

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• Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didnt really speak any English, and when we left, thats all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

  Delphine Arnault

  Beautiful, Brother, Heart

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• I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.

  Missy Peregrym

  Watches, Growing, Tvs

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