Growing Up Quotes - Page 32

• I didn't have any pets growing up.

  Ben Barnes

  Pet, Growing

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• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.

  Dan Brown

  Memories, Book, Wrinkles

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• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  John Dyer

  Art, Father, Book

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• Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

  Ben Folds

  Teenager, Tvs, Life Is

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

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• Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Brother, Home, Littles

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• I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Inspiration, Soul, Listening

  "Rebecca Ferguson Finds Heaven Everywhere". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

  Ryan Murphy

  New York, Kids, Littles

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• When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

  Ryan Murphy

  Stuff, My Favorite, Mary

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Father, Son, Men

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

  Chris Carter

  Play, Fans, Fiction

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• It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

  Paul Goodman

  Fighting, Important, Impossible

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.41, New York Review of Books

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• I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper.

  John McLaughlin

  Growing, Paper

  Source: www.comicosity.com

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

  Andrew Davies

  Teenager, Drinking, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

  Sebastian Stan

  Actors, Obsessed, Wanted

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

  Joe Wright

  Book, Kids, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

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• Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Book, Inspiration, Comic

  "Marvel Avengers Assemble - Scarlett Johansson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.

  Kal Penn

  Art, Passion, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You live with a writer [a mother], and you grow up with their words, their kind of fantasies, and I'd pretty much seen every single one of her plays, and been in a lot of rehearsal rooms, so it felt very natural and easy. It was lovely to get an opportunity to do that professionally as well.

  Keira Knightley

  Mother, Opportunity, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am a proud mother - that's another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mother, Son, Proud

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

  Virginia Madsen

  Hero, Males, Really Cool

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.

  Marlo Thomas

  People, Important, Awful

  "Marlo Thomas on her dad and why everyone needs to be free". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.businessinsider.com. October 9, 2015.

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• I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, Parent, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

  Freddie Highmore

  Guy, Today, England

  "Freddie Highmore, Kerri Russell, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Find Family in August Rush". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.

  Mike Posner

  Country, Cities, Groups

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

  Josh Duhamel

  Thinking, Age, Acting

  "Transformers - Josh Duhamel interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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