Raised Quotes - Page 5

• Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Dark, Games, Knights

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

  Jonah Hill

  Generations, Comedy, Emotion

  "Jonah Hill: 'People think I'm a horny, foul-mouthed teenager. But I'm 26 and very ambitious'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Children, Hippie

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• It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

  David Lloyd

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

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• Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Cities, Paris

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• For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

  Christian Louboutin

  Stupid, Men, High Heels

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• I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.

  Max Lucado

  Mom, Fun, Dad

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• I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

  John Lydon

  Party, Men, Class

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• I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Meditation, Church

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• I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.

  Shelby Lynne

  Country, Alabama, Woods

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• Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

  Alicia Machado

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

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• I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Jealous, Perfect

  "The Girls Next Door". Comedy, Reality-TV, Romance, www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Villain

  "Marilyn Manson - review" by Mark Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "All about my father". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• I was raised with "Laurel and Hardy" and "I Love Lucy" and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

  Steve Martin

  School, Laughing, Bedroom

  "Steve Martin Memoir Recalls A Past Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2009.

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• At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Stories, Redemption

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• A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

  Martina McBride

  Hard Work, Who I Am, Lucky

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• Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the dead and appeared to them.

  Josh McDowell

  Jesus, Answers, Resurrection

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• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  A. J. McLean

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

  Christopher Meloni

  Mother, Children, Dad

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• I wasn't raised Catholic; I just really like the image of a neutral and benign Mary floating around somewhere, being nice to people.

  Moby

  Nice, People, Catholic

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• A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

  Moby

  Mother, Aunt, Trying

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• I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.

  Michael Moore

  Catholic

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• I come from the state of Michigan. We were the first English-speaking government in the world to outlaw the death penalty, back in the 1840s. We have never had, as a state, the death penalty in Michigan. I was raised with that, and even Republicans in Michigan, nobody would even think of putting a measure on the ballot to have the death penalty.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Government, Firsts

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• I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

  Michael Moore

  Believe, Eye, Men

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