Growing Quotes - Page 30

• I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Growing Up, Two Friends, Dancing

  "Dance Your Ass Off with Ruben and Lisa Ann Walter!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. September 2, 2009.

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• I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

  Kelli Williams

  Growing Up, Animal, Garden

  "Actress Kelli Williams". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.

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• Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Children, Growing Up, Two

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• Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.

  Scott Bakula

  Growing Up, Sunday, Night

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• My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

  Brenda Song

  Growing Up, Dad, Ideas

  "Brenda Song - The NEW Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?

  Hilarie Burton

  Growing Up, Adventure, Virginia

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• I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

  Willie Geist

  Growing Up, Guy, Dave

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• My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

  Suzy Amis

  Running, Growing Up, Cowboy

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• If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

  Julianne Nicholson

  Children, Growing Up, Acting

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• I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Growing Up, Culture, Gamer

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.

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• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  Bette Midler

  Mother, Growing Up, People

  "Oprah Talks to Bette Midler". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2001.

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• When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

  "How Michelle Monaghan Stays Grounded and Gorgeous". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.health.com. October 28, 2011.

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• When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Growing Up, African American, Important

  "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.

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• Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Jobs, Growing Up, Smart

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• Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

  Sam Trammell

  Children, Boys, Connections

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• Growing up, I wasn't allowed dolls, and my brothers weren't allowed guns. I inherited my brothers' clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

  Natascha McElhone

  Brother, Growing Up, Gun

  "What I know about men". Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

  Billy Crystal

  Height, Fifth Grade, Grades

  "Fictional character: Sam Kamin". "My Giant", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

  Matt Bomer

  Growing Up, Artist, Past

  "Matt Bomer Tells the Personal Story Behind His Heartbreaking ‘Normal Heart’ Performance". Interview with Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

  Vince Vaughn

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

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• I decided to start embracing and wearing my natural hair, but there was only one problem; I didn't know what to do with it or how to style it. Growing up, all I knew was my relaxed, processed hair, so I had to go through this learning phase.

  Kimberly Elise

  Growing Up, Hair, Style

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• For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as well as evidence of the continuing vitality of this remarkable teaching. It may be counted as among the small handful of books that communicate something of what Gurdjieff brought.

  Jacob Needleman

  Book, Teaching, Ideas

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• My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.

  Michael Ian Black

  Growing Up, Hero, Mind Blowing

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.

  Criss Angel

  Growing Up, People, Over You

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• Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

  Constance Marie

  Growing Up, Pride, Wonder Woman

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• Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

  Daniella Monet

  Brother, Growing Up, Kids

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