Growing Quotes - Page 17

• I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

  Brit Marling

  Growing Up, Artist, Example

  "Brit Marling: The breakout indie star who’s taking us to “Another Earth” and back again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

  Janet McTeer

  Mother, Growing Up, Generations

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

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• I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

  Jayma Mays

  Mom, Growing Up, Fans

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• The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

  Anthony Minghella

  Morning, Growing Up, Kids

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• As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

  Bernie Mac

  Growing Up, Men, Kind

  Bernie Mac (2001). “I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is”, MTV Books

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• My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

  Sara Zarr

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

  Wanda Sykes

  Growing Up, Comedy

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• My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Jobs, Men, Political Opinions

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• I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.

  Lorde

  Growing Up, Night, Adults

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• I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

  Kevin Durant

  Tattoo, Growing Up, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  Ja Rule

  Growing Up, Believe, Thinking

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

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• I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

  Justin Bieber

  Growing Up, Mistake, Perfect

  "Justin Bieber Admits 'I'm Not Perfect' In New Interview" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 09, 2013.

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• In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.

  Meinrad Craighead

  Mother, Dream, Song

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Falling In Love, Growing Up, School

  "Hanging with Degrassi's Charlotte Arnold". Cosmogirl Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 19, 2010.

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• I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Growing Up, Kind, Modeling

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• I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Zero, Emotional, Blood

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

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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  Candace Kita

  Growing Up, Home, Texas

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• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  Faith Prince

  Growing Up, Laughing, Killers

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• My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

  Rainey Qualley

  Growing Up, People, Wizards

  "Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley Prove Mighty Fine". Interview with Alex Simon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

  Peter Gizzi

  Important, Astonishment, Fields

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• I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

  Janet Jackson

  Growing Up, Independent, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  Bailey Chase

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

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• When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Girl, Growing Up, Reading

  "Kathryn Lasky About A Journey to the New World". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Linda M. Pavonetti, www.scholastic.com.

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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