Growing Up Quotes - Page 36

• I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, Racing, Dawn

  "Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper interview: Need For Speed". Interview with Ryan Lambie, www.denofgeek.com. Mar 11, 2014.

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• Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules and no involvement in decision-making. . . . Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Giving Up, Teenager, Mean

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• I started [performing] so young that it might have just been that I kind of had to grow up and make people understand that I was worth listening to, even though I was a child.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, People, Listening

  "Margaret Cho: No one is more sensitive about p.c. culture than white people". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.salon.com. October 3, 2015.

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• I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'

  Chris Evans

  Girl, Thinking, Remember

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• As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, Pregnancy, League

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• Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

  Voltaire

  Men, Ideas, Beard

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• I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

  John Adams

  Thinking, Opera, Awful

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• The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

  Doug Collins

  Player, Today, Tough

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• Our purpose is to grow up and become love

  Thomas Campbell

  Purpose, Grows

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• In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

  John Strachan

  Sex, School, Ignorance

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• Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

  Christopher Morley

  Friendship, Fashion, Grows

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• I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

  John Carpenter

  Jobs, Later In Life, Who I Am

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

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• If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
  is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

  Martha Beck

  Faces, Bittersweet, Face Your Fears

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

  Kevin James

  Kids, Musical, Instruments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.

  Paul Goodman

  Movie, Children, Parent

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.76, New York Review of Books

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• I didn't have any pets growing up.

  Ben Barnes

  Pet, Growing

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• I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

  Michael Jackson

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

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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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• 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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• Beauty is everywhere. And my photography came naturally without any particular inspirations growing up.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Inspiration, Particular

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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