Growing Up Quotes - Page 27

• Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

  Keke Palmer

  Educational, Choices, Poverty

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett...and Diane Keaton - she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.

  Katie Holmes

  Dream, Thinking, Roles

  "Exclusive! Katie Holmes Talks!". Interview with Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. March 1, 2009.

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• When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.

  Kellee Stewart

  Girl, Self Esteem, Grateful

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• Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  School, Kids, Thinking

  "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man, your taste in characters changes and I think I have become more interested in active characters as I have become less contemplative in my personal life. Things have become a little bit more interesting in the doing these days and less interesting in the thinking about the doing.

  Josh Hartnett

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "Interview: Josh Hartnett Talks 30 Days Of Night". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 1, 2007.

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• My grandmother lives on a farm. And growing up, I assumed that the animals that I was eating and the animals that I was wearing all came from farms like my grandmother's. They all had names, they were all smothered with love, and they all lived to be very old.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Grandmother, Animal, Names

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

  Andy Biersack

  School, Nerd, Different

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• Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Museums, People

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Islands, Massachusetts, Nantucket

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

  Kirby Wright

  Dark, Trying, Use

  "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut: An Interview With Kirby Wright". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.

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• As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.

  Rajon Rondo

  Cutting, Nba, Play

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.

  Mario Chalmers

  Winning, Feelings, One Day

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• When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, "Oh, Jefferson had slaves?" It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.

  Harry Shearer

  Character, White, House

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Heart, Adults

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• Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Mean, Eye, Issues

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• My life has always been full of music..My father was a concert promoter when I was a kid so music has always been a part of my life growing up, furthering my desire to do music when I was old enough to create it on my own.

  Truth Hurts

  Father, Kids, Desire

  Source: popingcherry.wordpress.com

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• I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."

  Wayne Dyer

  East, Scarcity, Littles

  "Become A Mighty Manifester An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

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• It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.

  Johnny Carson

  Sex, Kids, Causes

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

  Mike Stud

  Thinking, Musical, Want

  Source: www.cavemag.com

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• People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

  George Jung

  People, Thrill, Born

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

  Lake Bell

  Land, Actors, World

  "Lake Bell Talks Getting Beat Up in ‘No Escape’ and Her Next Directorial Gig". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

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• Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style.

  Kirko Bangz

  Rap, Artist, Style

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• I'm not even sure of what I want in a woman yet. I have a lot of things to do in life. When I grow up as long as she can cook, take care of the kids, and make me feel like "Daddy" then I'll be alright with her.

  Kirko Bangz

  Kids, Daddy, Long

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• I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.

  Donald Miller

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph.

  Rickey Henderson

  Home, Mean, Opportunity

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