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• I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Beautiful, Beach, Growing Up

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• As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

  Ron Francis

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

  Allison Janney

  Growing Up, Height, Drawbacks

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• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  Calista Flockhart

  Funny, Growing Up, Moving

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• What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

  Beverly Cleary

  Children, Growing Up, Interest

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• When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

  Alison Bechdel

  Growing Up, Book, Adults

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• If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

  Herschel Walker

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

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• People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

  Peter Fonda

  Funny, Growing Up, Father

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• So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.

  Polly Toynbee

  Jobs, Giving Up, Jail

  "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

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• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  Yvonne Craig

  Growing Up, Animal, People

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• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  Camryn Manheim

  Growing Up, School, College

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• Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

  Gale Norton

  Growing Up, Mountain, Colorado

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• Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

  Maya Lin

  Growing Up, Artist, White

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• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Garden, Public Opinion

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• But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Growing Up, Hockey, California

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

  Adam Sandler

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

  Geri Halliwell

  Growing Up, Trying, Fit

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• My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  Mark Hoppus

  Growing Up, Differences, Parent

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• I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

  Trevor Rabin

  Growing Up, Couple, Government

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

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• I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, People, Fans

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• There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

  Brandon Routh

  Growing Up, Towns, Small Town

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• The thing about being an actor is that you're in the business of not growing up

  Luke Wilson

  Growing Up, Business, Actors

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• We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

  Mike Bickle

  Leadership, Christian, Prayer

  Mike Bickle (2014). “Growing in Prayer”, p.16, Charisma Media

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