Growing Up Quotes - Page 37

• I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.

  Mia Tyler

  Kids, Role Models, Different

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

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• Growing up, I was taught a mans word is his bond.

  Logan Mankins

  Growing, Taught

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• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  Malik Bendjelloul

  Kids, Jail, Eras

  "Malik Bendjelloul's search for a genius". Interview with Hannah Lack, www.dazeddigital.com. September 1, 2013.

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• My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Islands, Ideas, Long

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

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• To make this world a whole lot brighter,
  when I grow up I'll be a writer.

  Lee Bennett Hopkins

  World, Grows, Whole

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• Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.

  Molly Tarlov

  Fun, People, Sometimes

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• You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

  Emily Rios

  Teacher, Teaching, School

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• I can understand the dilemma of growing up in a bubble, and then not knowing what to do when unemployment beckons and reality bursts in.

  Jessie Cave

  Reality, Knowing, Unemployment

  "My jailed Harry Potter co-star is the victim of a make-believe world" by Jessie Cave, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I believe in soulmates, especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  Nadia Bjorlin

  Soulmate, Believe, Past

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• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  Nadia Bjorlin

  Sweet, Parent, Actors

  "Exclusive: Nadia Bjorlin Returns to Days of Our Lives". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. August 21, 2012.

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• When you grow up, your heart dies.

  Ally Sheedy

  Heart, Breakfast, Clubs

  Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery

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• I wanna grow up and be a critic.

  Richard Pryor

  Critics, Grows

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• I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

  Jodi Picoult

  People, Missing, Wonder

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.116, Ballantine Books

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• No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Girl, Kids, Skirts

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Christmas, Holiday, Law

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Fall, Grieving, Silence

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.

  Mary Harron

  Dad, Disappointment, Real

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.

  Amy Tan

  People, Personality, Atmosphere

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

  Clay Guida

  Dream, People, Towns

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. December 5, 2014.

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• I always thought I desperately wanted a husband and a big family, because I didn't have it growing up.

  Drew Barrymore

  Husband, Big Families, Bigs

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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• My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

  Michelle Rhee

  Numbers, Focus, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Kids, Player

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• In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!

  Gilles Marini

  Love Is, Trying, Together

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• We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.

  Charles Roven

  Character, Years, Choices

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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