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“Growing up, you would think that love is a tangible object, that you can point or touch it. Love is not a thing, it is an aggregation of several things, like caring, assisting, sacrifice, attention, and doing whatever one has to do to protect someone dear.”

Author:Beck

“Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.”

Felt Growing Up Growing Special Skills Performers Vacation Resentment Tolls

Author:Dana Plato

“Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving.”

“Growing up, being a rapper wasn't my goal, but it became my destination.”

Goal Growing Up Rapper

Author:Dom Kennedy

“Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.”

Should Kind I Can Might Growing Up Growing Labor Manuals Manual Labor

Author:Jennifer Connelly

“Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.”

Ifs World Persons I Can Book Asks Pay Growing Up Growing Debt Saved Sanity Lifelines

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

Felt Imagination Church Growing Up Growing Mystery Tree Ocean Catholic Green Landscape Giants My Imagination Catholic Church Embedded Tropical Seamless

Author:Karen Russell

“Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me - I could make them up and learn bits and pieces of what was going on over time. There's something about it being always a step away that makes it more fun to chase.”

Years Ideas Fun Bits Steps Growing Up Pieces Growing No Idea Plot Fascinated Opera Bits And Pieces

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.”

Stills Different Growing Up Pieces Cutting Growing Team Design Clothes Very Good Circles Clothings Affordable Billboards Good Team Full Circle

Author:Tiesto

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

Kids Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Neighborhood Riding Dirt Bike Skateboarding Bike Riding Dirt Bikes

Author:Daniella Monet

“Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.”

Believe Wanted Growing Up Growing Player Baseball Radio Djs Baseball Player

Author:Casey Kasem

“Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.”

Mind Winning Growing Up Growing Gold Nba Championship Nba Championships

Author:Dwyane Wade

“Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett...and Diane Keaton - she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.”

Thinking Looks Dream Actors Roles Growing Up Growing Genius Complexes Look Up Kate Julia Hepburn Audrey Very Inspiring

Author:Katie Holmes

“Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.”

Art Two Passion Interest Acting Growing Up Growing Public Service

Author:Kal Penn

“Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.”

Firsts Children Remember Growing Up Taken Growing Seeing Sleepers

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.”

Growing Up Growing Football Basketball Towns Core Detroit

Author:Ndamukong Suh

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

Done Wanted Growing Up Growing Singers

Author:Sevyn Streeter

“Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.”

People Kind Dream Wanted Enjoy Growing Up Growing Band Elements Harder Crowds Coming Out Punk Surfing Gigs

Author:Florence Welch

“Growing up, I always wanted to sing.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing

Author:Damian McGinty

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.”

Humans Long Made Differences Human Beings Accepting Growing Up Growing Long Time Decided Long Time Ago Convenience Whim Insistence

Author:Maya Angelou

“Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.”

Whole Dream Wanted Growing Up Growing Whole Life Ghetto

Author:Snoop Dogg

“Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.”

Feels Growing Up Growing Very Cool

Author:Alice Lowe

“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.”

Art Artist Growing Up Growing Becoming Circumstances Art Is Wealthy

Author:Kesh

“Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.”

Thinking Inspirational Stories Individual Imagination Growing Up Growing Entertainment Teenager Afternoon Toys Teens Ingenuity

Author:Terry Brooks

“Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.”

Book Hands House Sleep Growing Up Growing My Friends Comic Comic Book Candy Trunks Devouring Kipling

Author:James Spader

“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.”

Different Stories Film Imagination Interesting Growing Up Growing Television Dad My Dad Mediums Enjoyed Ran My Imagination

Author:Shiloh Fernandez

“Growing up, I didn't know about families who were missing a father, because there weren't any in our neighborhood. Today over a third of American children are born into single-parent homes. Is this all men's doing?”

Knows Men Children Home Today Father Parent Born Growing Up Growing Missing Thirds Neighborhood About Family Single Parent Parents Home

Author:Timothy J. Russert

“Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in the projects with no dream of anything, it was in my formatting when i got older and started talking to my friends about how I felt, they would be like, "dude, that's funny." Then one day my friend was like, "Dude, you don't understand how funny you are, you need to do standup"!”

Knows Needs Dream Would Be Felt Talking Growing Up Comedy Growing Grew One Day Projects Grew Up My Friends Comedian

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.”

Knows Parent Growing Up Growing Christie Saying Hi

Author:Alexa Ray Joel

“Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.”

Knows Firsts Play Growing Up Saws Growing First Time Unions Profound Hockey Heritage Soviet Soviet Union

Author:Gabe Polsky

“Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.”

Character Black Growing Up Representation Black Women

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.”

Would Be Easy Realizing Growing Up Growing Rocks Musician Rock Music Rock Musicians

Author:Sean Lennon

“Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.”

Feels Body Felt Growing Up Growing Embrace Feminine Insecure

Author:Hope Solo

“Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.”

Art Two Found Parent Growing Up Growing Math Two Things

Author:John Maeda

“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.”

People Two Hard Helping School Growing Up Growing Seeing Fronts Dad Catholic My Dad Seats Help Me Toilets Catholic School

Author:Mia Love

“Growing up, I had a singing teacher who was an amazing champion of mine who helped build up my confidence, and I also count my therapist as one of the best teachers that I've ever had.”

Growing Up Teacher Growing Mines Singing Champion Therapists Best Teacher

Author:Gideon Glick

“Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.”

People Made Stills Sometimes Fun Growing Up Growing

Author:Molly Tarlov

“Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.”

Ifs School Social Teach Growing Up Growing High School Busy Cooks Kitchen If I Could Mama Social Life Sophomore

Author:Paula Deen

“Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.”

Growing Up Growing Brother Normal My Brother Hanging Out Brothers And Sisters My Best Friend Inspirational Sister Inspirational Brother And Sister

Author:Logan Lerman

“Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.”

Boys Growing Up Growing Insane Crush Shops Pet

Author:Erin O'Connor

“Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'”

Should Ideas Sound Growing Up Growing Captains Sound Of Music

Author:Ellie Kemper

“Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.”

Years Wanted Fantasy Growing Up Growing Lists Psychotic

Author:Rob Zombie

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”

Growing Up Growing Finished Housework

Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: Cordelia's Honor

“Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.”

Different Wanted Values Growing Up Growing Being Different

Author:Marisol Nichols

“Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.”

Kind Motivation Growing Up Growing Fighter Warrior Mentality Adopted

Author:Nonito Donaire

“Growing up, I kind of liked the way he (Thurman Munson) played. I didn't see much of him, but I remember him being a leader. I remember him really standing up for his teammates, and that really caught my eye.”

Way Kind Eye Remember Leader Growing Up Growing Standing Caught Teammate Being A Leader

Author:Jorge Posada

“Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Profession Something Better Shopkeepers

Author:Les Wexner

“Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.”

Stuff Growing Up Growing Groups Listening Motown

Author:Eddie Murphy

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