Growing Up Quotes - Page 36

• If we don't give kids the opportunity to fail when they're growing up, and to fail productively, to fail creatively, that they're going to get out there into the world and they're going to hit some kind of setback, like everybody does, and they're going to get completely derailed.

  Paul Tough

  Kids, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

  Frank Deford

  Mean, Kids, Player

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

  Lena Waithe

  Pain, Thinking, Ties

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.

  Dori Berinstein

  Taken, Ucla, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Military, Maturity, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Giving, Parent, Able

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Names, Elephants, Mad

  "Dan Perkins". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.

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• Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Morning, Father, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

  Tarkan

  Two, Germany, Culture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

  Edwin Catmull

  School, Kids, Obvious Things

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

  Alison Pill

  New York, Acting, World

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Dream, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Growing up working with my dad, I really had no interest in doing the actual work, so I was always like drawing on the wood, doing stuff like that. It just has a real hands-on approach.

  Eddie Martinez

  Dad, Real, Drawing

  Interview with Ross Simonini, logger.believermag.com. May 15, 2012.

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• What's culturally significant about MySpace is that it has become so pervasive that people of all ages are now using it. Even people who didn't grow up with it are getting used to it. People just get sucked in.

  Tom Anderson

  People, Age, Significant

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Grows

  Cecil Castellucci (2012). “Beige”, p.42, Candlewick Press

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• I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

  Brian d'Arcy James

  Growing

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• I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.

  Brian d'Arcy James

  Television, Want, Saws

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• Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

  Caitlin Rose

  Jobs, Mean, Later In Life

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  Lindi Ortega

  Dad, Player, Musical

  "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.

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• You didnt grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Light, Shadow, Shoulders

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• My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. Its about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Children, Book, Fall

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• My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

  Lisa Jakub

  Decision, Hollywood, Film

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• Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

  Stark Sands

  School, Rocks, Band

  Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. April 14, 2010.

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• I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

  Grace Gummer

  Growing, Swimmer, Wanted

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

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• Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

  Grace Gummer

  Brother, Parent, Musician

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