Growing Up Quotes - Page 26

• I was a cheerleader growing up, so I can relate to that!

  Kelly Stables

  Cheerleader, Relate, I Can

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• Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be Snow White" - it's crazy. It's an honor.

  Lily Collins

  Crazy, White, Snow

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• You always have that moment where you grow up and you're like, "Oh, my god, I'm being exactly like my mother." I think that's everyone's greatest hope and worst fear.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Mother, Thinking, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a little part of me that always felt like I was going to be an actress, but I never acted when I was growing up. I was a dancer. That's all I did, all day, all my life. Maybe this was just where I was meant to be, and somehow I ended up here, but it just felt right. As soon as I started acting, it just felt like it was meant to be.

  Summer Glau

  Dancer, Acting, Actresses

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.

  Gal Gadot

  Mom, Teacher, Gymnastics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Role Models, Parent, Roles

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• I think at the time, my radicalization was not through growing up Chinese, but through the role that the black people were playing at the beginning of World War II, when they had started the "Double V for Victory" movement - for democracy at home as well as abroad.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.

  Justin Allgaier

  Racing, Age, Levels

  "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.

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• When you grow up around racing, you just want to race for a living. It doesn't matter what it is.

  Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

  Race, Racing, Want

  "A conversation with NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

  Tinchy Stryder

  Cities, People, Want

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

  Jack Kirby

  Als, Crooks, Cop

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Everything we play when we are growing up, is team related. In this game (of golf) you can find all the answers yourself. You don't need to throw the ball in the air and play catch with yourself. You get a bucket of balls and go out there with your clubs, and you hit and learn and you get better. And there's no top.

  George Lopez

  Team, Golf, Air

  "An Interview with George Lopez, Host of The Bob Hope Dessert Golf Classic for 2007". Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.

  Amy Poehler

  Children, Kids, Love Is

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Yale, Average

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each other to stay grounded, grow together and for comfort. Our memories growing up are what built our foundation. I think we are proof to never give up. None of us are perfect, and we're okay with making fun of our flaws.

  Christina Milian

  Giving Up, Fun, Memories

  "Christina Milian: Being compared to the Kardashians is a compliment". Interview with Dorothy Cascerceri, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2015.

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• When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

  Wayne Dyer

  Way, Bigs, Stigma

  "You Are God". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. October 2014.

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• When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I guess I'm an atheist. But I would say I have very good relationships with the priests that I grew up with. I was an altar boy growing up, and the men of God in my life have always been really lovely, intelligent, well-informed, kind men. So I feel very loyal to their beliefs as much as anything else.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Atheist, Intelligent, Boys

  "Chris O'Dowd on How to Deal with a Hangover". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Kids

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Careers, Parent

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Real, Distance, Kids

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• Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

  Chris Colfer

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."

  Jonah Hill

  Writing, Play, Parent

  "Jonah Hill "Allen Gregory" Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Growing up we were secular Jews, but what I got out of Judaism at that time in my life was questions. Everything was a question. "Dad, is there a heaven? Is there a hell?" You never could get an answer. That informed a lot of my reasons for getting into Scientology, because they had all the answers. They said I was not my body, not my mind. I don't have a soul; I am an immortal soul. I've lived many lives and I'll live endlessly into the future, and as an immortal soul I have no gender.

  Kate Bornstein

  Dad, Heaven, Soul

  "'A Queer and Pleasant Danger': Kate Bornstein, Trans Scientology Survivor". Interview with Nicole Pasulka, www.motherjones.com. May 5, 2012.

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• I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.

  Zac Efron

  School, Musical, Phases

  "Interview: Zac Efron talks to dead people in 'Charlie St. Cloud'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodnews.com. July 20, 2010.

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