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“Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just because we're all chocolate doesn't mean we're all the same. In D.C., everyone co-exists harmoniously but the lines are still drawn. And people don't really step over those lines.”

People Mean Stills Different Lines Levels Cities Steps Growing Up Growing Type Educational Chocolate

Author:Laz Alonso

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

Growing Up Growing Mountain Colorado Denver

Author:Gale Norton

“Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.”

Used Growing Up Growing Protect Gun Eastern Kentucky

Author:Loretta Lynn

“Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.”

Thinking Years Father Language Growing Up Growing Involved Instinct Cows Sheep Cheese Eastern Turkeys Farming Unspoken Yogurt

Author:Hamdi Ulukaya

“Growing up in England, I was constantly surrounded by the Arthurian legend.”

Growing Up Growing England Legends Arthurian Legend

Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“Growing up in England, of course you do absorb certain ways the royals wave their hands and carry themselves. Like most girls, I fantasized about being some sort of a princess.”

Way Hands Certain Girl Courses Growing Up Growing England Wave Princess Royal

Author:Julie Andrews

“Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.”

People Light Given Creative Growing Up Growing Doors England Green Publishers Banging Green Lights

Author:Nick Bantock

“Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!”

Way Hard Home Hours Half Growing Up Growing Walking England Flight Granted California Spoiled Half Hours

Author:Rupert Friend

“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. What is said, what is left to the imagination, what is denied, withheld, exaggerated-all these secretive, inverted things informed my childhood. Writing the stories that I found in the box, I remember being particularly fascinated by secrets kept in order to protect someone from who you are. That protection, sharpest knife in the drawer, I absorbed as naturally as a southern accent. At that time, I was curious to hold up to the light glimpses of the family that I had so efficiently fled. We were remote-back behind nowhere-when I was growing up, but even so, enormous social change was about to crumble foundations. Who were we, way far South? "We're south of everywhere," my mother used to lament.”

South Biography Georgia Southerners Frances Mayes

Author:Frances Mayes

Source: Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

“Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.”

People Thinking Way Trying Different Play Jobs Used Grows Church Growing Up Growing Towns Raises West Small Town Georgia Softball Up North

Author:Alan Jackson

“Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.”

Ifs Would Be Growing Up Growing Week Sky Dad Rain My Dad Be Good Mood Tone Farmers Household Agriculture Crops Georgia Luke Forecasts Bryan Good Week

Author:Luke Bryan

“Growing up in Hawaii, the ocean is where I'm most at home. When I'm away from it and landlocked I long for the ocean. There's something about it, I'm at peace with it.”

Long Home Growing Up Ocean

Author:Scott Eastwood

“Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.”

Children Kids Stars Growing Up Growing Hollywood

Author:Liza Minnelli

“Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.”

People Thinking Children Ideas Kids Stars Growing Up Growing Special Hollywood Lifestyle No Idea Compare

Author:Liza Minnelli

“Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.”

Shows Kids School Film Stars Wealth Growing Up Growing Hollywood Showing Off Film Stars

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.”

Passion Growing Up Growing Hollywood Cinema

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.”

World Form Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Ready Needed Degrees India Prepared Changing The World Engineering Good Opportunity

Author:Naveen Jain

“Growing up in Israel, how can I not be an optimist? When you remember what Israel was 50 years ago and you see Israel now, one of the most successful countries in the world, stable, democratic, with an enormously stable economy despite everything that has happened in the global economy in the last few years, how can I not be an optimist?”

World Years Country Lasts Remember Economy Growing Up Successful Growing Happened Years Ago Democratic Israel Despite Stable Optimist Global Economy

Author:Ehud Olmert

“Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.”

Thinking Might Church Growing Up Growing Quiet Fundamentals Dancing British Hymns Fiery Jamaica Pentecostal

Author:Grace Jones

“Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.”

Different Culture Black Interesting Cities Growing Up Growing Middle Eastern Jersey Different Cultures Jersey City

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.”

Years Two Running Kids Used Growing Up Four Growing Gay Percent My Friends Hanging Out Buddy Kentucky

Author:Hal Sparks

“Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.”

People Knows Poverty Growing Up Growing Definitions Far Away Kenya Slums

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“Growing up in Los Angeles, I was incredibly fortunate to be taken to theatre by my parents to see everything at the Music Center, at UCLA and beyond. I just adored it.”

Parent Growing Up Taken Growing Theatre Fortunate Los Angeles Ucla

Author:Dori Berinstein

“Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage. What ended up happening was I started learning about more instruments, so I just kind of went that route. Music's really all I've ever done.”

Kind Done Growing Up Growing Happenings Instruments Grandmother Heritage Routes My Grandmother Louisiana Accordions Cajuns

Author:Hunter Hayes

“Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV.”

World Energy Creative Growing Up Growing Tvs England Obvious Theatre Prose Routes Creative Energy Malaysia

Author:Arvind Ethan David

“Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.”

Firsts Kind Whole Dream Song Bits Growing Up Growing Listening First Time Busy All Kinds Memphis

Author:William Bell

“Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.”

Growing Up Growing Magnificent Memphis St Jude

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. Being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence. I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there.”

People Strong Party Growing Up Influence Latin Cuban

Author:Kat Dahlia

“Growing up in Miami, I had all these great, strong influences. You know, being Cuban and the Latin influence, but also the strong hip-hop influence.”

Strong Growing Up Influence Latin Cuban

Author:Kat Dahlia

“Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.”

Growing Up Growing Fine I Realized Michigan

Author:Lily Tomlin

“Growing up in Middlesbrough [in England], I listened to artists like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Howlin' Wolf. It was like another world. Something happened to me when I heard that music. It leapt out of the speakers and went straight into my heart. And I thought, "Right, that's what I'm doing."”

World Heart Littles Artist Growing Up Growing Happened Heard My Heart England Speakers Another World Chuck Berries Howlin Wolf Middlesbrough

Author:Paul Rodgers

“Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.”

Stills Growing Up Growing Safe I Realized Mississippi Safe Places

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.”

Attention Growing Up Farmers Show Business

Author:Mac McAnally

“Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.”

Persons Made Growing Up Growing Motivated Better Person

Author:Raekwon

“Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work your way out of a wide variety of death traps. Failure to get loose on your own could lead to missing dinner, or worse, being forced to admit that you missed dinner because your baby sister had tied you to the couch. Again.”

Way Games Growing Up Growing Missing Baby My Family Balls Dinner Wide Variety Tied Traps Couches Rigged Dodge Baby Sister Crossbows

Author:Mira Grant

“Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.”

Giving Trying Important Growing Up Growing My Family Being The Best

Author:Daphne Oz

“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.”

People Trying Mean Seems Jobs Realizing Common Growing Up Growing Dollars Common Sense Pretending Music Business Nashville Later In Life Semester Business Family

Author:Caitlin Rose

“Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.”

Growing Up Growing Needed England Evolve Shakes Schooled New England

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn't take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom's Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.”

Mind Long School Church Growing Up Growing Mom Dad Catholic My Mom New Orleans Fascination Catholic Church Baptists Mom And Dad Catholic School Zion

Author:Avery Johnson

“Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.”

Thinking Cities Growing Up Growing New York Authority Confused New York City Jingoism

Author:Claire Danes

“Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.”

Trying Play Whole Fun Process Creative Growing Up Growing Style New York Picks Dresses Stanley Stylist Amazing Relationship

Author:Lea Michele

“Growing up in New York is like living in a horror museum because there are so many strange people walking the streets and riding the subways. You learn to develop a tough front if you live here, just in case you get into any kind of trouble and you need to talk your way out of it.”

People Ifs Way Needs Kind Cases Growing Up Growing Trouble Streets Fronts New York Strange Walking Horror Tough Museums Riding Subway

Author:Christopher Walken

“Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.”

Thinking Long Artist Parent Challenges Mistake Growing Up Environment Growing New York Long Time Confused Status Quo Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo Jingoism

Author:Claire Danes

“Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'”

World Years Children Home School Fun Realizing Deals Growing Up Too Much Growing New York Glory Wake Up I Realized Snow My Children Shocked Californians Too Much Fun Snow Day

Author:Adam Savage

“Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.”

Thinking Bigs Next Half Growing Up Growing Influence One Day Moon Driving California Next Day Santa Love And Respect Cruz Sierra Oakland Northern California Santa Cruz Half Moon

Author:Tom Hanks

“Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.”

“Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished.”

Art New York Dance Urban Fantasy Series

Author:Susan Anne Russell

“Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Mind Kind Country Reality Guy Growing Up Growing Crazy Dad My Dad Average Screens Arguing Be Kind Factories Just Being Ohio

Author:Roger Ailes

“Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.”

Play Sports Watches Growing Up Growing Drug Oklahoma Watch Movie

Author:Bill Hader

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