Growing Up Quotes - Page 35

• I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

  Ronnie Wood

  Thinking, Too Late, Hell

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• I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Jobs, Book, College

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.

  Nicki Minaj

  Fun, Sea, Keys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Kids, Cities, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.

  Alexander Wang

  College, Made, Adore

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.

  Milla Jovovich

  Ebb And Flow, Attention, My Family

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

  Irena A. Hoffman

  Dream, Reading, Stories

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• [I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Hate, Shoes, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Rapper, Doctors

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Mother, Artist, Naked

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.

  Katie Uhlaender

  Kids, Men, Race

  "'It’s Hucking Yourself Downhill Super-Fast'". Interview with Ian Gordon, www.motherjones.com. December 30, 2013.

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• My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.

  Bran Ferren

  Mother, Art, Father

  "Conversations with Michael Eisner", www.nbcnews.com. March 28, 2006.

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• I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic.

  Janice Galloway

  Numbers, Ninety Nine, Two

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• One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Unique, Years

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• I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.

  Ann Hood

  Reading, Book, Writing

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• Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

  Bo Jackson

  Kids, Airports, House

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• I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.

  Bo Jackson

  Play, Years, Juniors

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• Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

  Terrell Owens

  Kids, Littles, Size

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• We all get misinformation growing up about people who are different from ourselves.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  People, Different, Misinformation

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• As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Children, Lying, Thinking

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• Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Real, Ukulele, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.

  Sheldon Candis

  Children, Kids, Baltimore

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

  Ketch Secor

  Cabins, Plowing, Acres

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.

  Charles Burnett

  People, Southern, Important

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.

  Doug Martsch

  Powerful, Rocks, People

  "Real Time With Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch". Interview with Azeen Ghorayshi, www.motherjones.com. February 27, 2012.

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