Growing Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Growing Up, Watches, Nightmare

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• Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

  Vincent Piazza

  Growing Up, Suits, Burden

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• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Growing Up, Garlands, Leonardo

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with How to Succeed's Tammy Blanchard". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. February 18, 2011.

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• The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Mother, Growing Up, Cat

  "Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. May 19, 2012.

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• I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

  Erin Wasson

  Growing Up, Thinking, Design

  "Supermodel & Designer Erin Wasson on Her Collection, Role in Sofia Coppola’s Next Film & Kissing Justin Timberlake". Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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• I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

  Antony Starr

  Art, Growing Up, Eight

  "A 20-Minute Session with the Badass from Banshee". Interview with Mike Simone, www.mensfitness.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.

  Sevyn Streeter

  Growing Up, Done, Singers

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• Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Growing Up, Color, Skins

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• For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Years, Tree, Littles

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• Coaching staff: I know there's days you look at that film and you want to kill me. I'm not playing defense, taking bad shots, getting too many techs. But you always believe that I can be the guy. Through the tough times, you guys never left my side... That's something that I really appreciate and I never want to take you guys for granted. I thank you so much for being part of my life. And not just on the basketball court, but giving me talks about growing as a man first, and a basketball player next.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Believe, Player

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• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Growing Up, America, Russia

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• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Growing Up, Thinking, Mortality

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• We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.

  Jon Anderson

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Ideas

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

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• I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  Corey Taylor

  Kings, Growing Up, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Fashion, Growing Up, Neighbor

  Malcolm Gladwell (2008). “Outliers: The Story of Success”, p.48, Hachette UK

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