Growing Quotes - Page 31

• I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

  Steven Strait

  New York, Growing Up, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Growing Up, My Family, Lifestyle

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• I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

  Stephen Mangan

  Dad, Growing Up, Actors

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• As I grow older, I have a growing curiosity about my other half. My dad did a wonderful job raising me, and I wouldn't change it for the world, but at the same time there is a growing curiosity about my other half.

  Apolo Ohno

  Jobs, Dad, Curiosity

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• Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Growing Up, Dad, Imagination

  "Shiloh Fernandez Exclusive Interview RED RIDING HOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

  Chuck Connors

  Growing Up, Believe, Kids

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

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• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Growing Up, Inspiration

  "Naturi Naughton Talks New Role In ‘The Client List’ & Life After ‘The Playboy Club’". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

  Rick Gonzalez

  Mom, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Jobs, Growing Up, Debt

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• Im grateful for my health, glad Im making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I dont take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. Its a gratitude list. It works.

  David Alan Basche

  Daughter, Gratitude, Grateful

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• My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Tattoo, Growing Up, Imagination

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• I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Girly, Running, Growing Up

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• It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down

  Selena Gomez

  Growing Up, Cutting, People

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• I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Andy Serkis: From Gollum to Ian Dury". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.

  Andy Serkis

  Growing Up, Kids, Painter

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Pursuit Of Happiness, Opportunity

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• Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up.

  Stephen Colletti

  Growing Up, Gun, My Favorite

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• I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

  Kirsten Nelson

  Growing Up, Couple, Carnegie

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• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Growing Up, Selfish, Ambition

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

  Maureen Daly

  Growing Up, House, Sides

  Maureen Daly (1946). “Seventeenth summer”

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• Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.

  Maureen Daly

  Growing Up, Thinking, Feelings

  Maureen Daly (2009). “Seventeenth Summer”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• Growing up is loving what you can afford to.

  Babs Deal

  Growing Up, Adulthood

  BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”

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• My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Prayer, Pain

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• [On middle age:] ... the very real possibility for you of growing fat as you near death and thus being seen by everyone while you are both DEAD AND FAT.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Real, Age, Possibility

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.

  Tig Notaro

  Girl, Country, Mother

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