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

Growing Up Growing My Family Lifestyle Moderates

“Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.”

“Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.”

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Author:Lucy Lawless

“Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.”

Growing Up Growing Bills

Author:Robin Thicke

“Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.”

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Author:Meg Cabot

“Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.”

Wanted Reading Fiction Growing Up Growing Travel Science Fiction Traveler Explorers Inaccessible

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.”

Firsts Said Parent Growing Up Growing Heard First Time Curse My Sister Kim Curse Words

Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.”

Would Be Actors Growing Up Growing

Author:Lance Reddick

“Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.”

Growing Up Growing

Author:Patrick Wolf

“Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Followers Dodgers

Author:Andre Ethier

“Growing up, I played about every sport imaginable except soccer and hockey. I've always had a passion for basketball. I remember actually playing basketball when I was two or three years old. The time I knew that I could really take my game to the next level.”

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Author:Dwight Howard

“Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.”

Growing Up Growing Softball Cheerleader

Author:Carrie Underwood

“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.”

World Giving Trying Wells Use Light Order Actors Growing Up Issues Growing Figures Balance Happenings Shining I Realized Platforms Giving Back Spotlight

Author:Serinda Swan

“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back.”

Giving Use Order Actors Growing Up Growing Figures I Realized Platforms Giving Back

Author:Serinda Swan

“Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.”

Thinking Littles Growing Up Growing Figures Fame Who You Are I Realized Bizarre

Author:Tyler Posey

“Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.”

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Author:David Boreanaz

“Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.”

World Film Growing Up Growing Film Set

Author:Danny Huston

“Growing up, I spent summers with my grandparents in a small seaside town in Croatia. It's the most beautiful place on the planet. I still go back every year. It reminds me of what's important in life.”

Years Stills Important Beautiful Growing Up Growing Planets Summer Towns Grandparent What's Important Beautiful Places Croatia

Author:Vanya Asher

“Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.”

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Author:Herschel Walker

“Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.”

Children Real Care Jobs Father Parent Growing Up Growing Models Real Jobs

Author:LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

“Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.”

Kids Growing Up Five Growing

Author:Minnie Driver

“Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.”

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Author:Deborah Pryce

“Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.”

Growing Up Growing Burden Suits Wearing A Suit

Author:Vincent Piazza

“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”

People Book Growing Up Teacher Growing Taught Behave Adviser

Author:Neil Gaiman

Source: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Growing up, I used to watch Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, All in the Family. Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, McMillan and Wife and Columbo.”

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Author:Mark Pellegrino

“Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.”

Inspirational Wanted Girl Growing Up Growing Please Teenager Teens Teenage Good Girl

Author:Claire Danes

“Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.”

Wanted Sports Growing Up Growing Fashion Industry Aunt Commentators Fashion Industry

Author:Olivia Palermo

“Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Adults Pretending

Author:Guy Pearce

“Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.”

Growing Up Growing Nerd Eyeglasses

Author:Taye Diggs

“Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.”

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Author:Kyrie Irving

“Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.”

Thinking Character Kids Felt Growing Up Growing Stage Shy

Author:Jesse Tyler Ferguson

“Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.”

Knows Persons School Growing Up Growing Type Invisible Shy Nerd

Author:Jenna Fischer

“Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.”

Important Eye School Growing Up Growing Normal Public School

Author:Tahj Mowry

“Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.”

Littles Made Values Growing Up Growing Thirds Cooking Productions Video Kitchen Grades Italian Third Grade

Author:Bob Ainsworth

“Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.”

Body Growing Up Growing Shy

Author:Marisa Miller

“Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.”

People Want Wells Sometimes Kids Faces Black Wonder Growing Up Growing Team My Friends Difficulty Lasting Black People Nhl

Author:Jarome Iginla

“Growing up, I was always the small guy.”

Guy Growing Up Growing

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.”

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Author:Kambri Crews

“Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.”

Should Real Ends Helping Jobs Opportunity Chance Growing Up Growing Enjoyed Public Service Good Education Real Jobs

Author:John Sununu

“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”

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Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from Friends.”

Growing Up Growing Jennifer

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.”

Growing Up Growing Influence Huge Inspired Bob Dylan Rice

Author:Ed Sheeran

“Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.”

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Author:Mary Harron

“Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.”

Years Firsts Shows Growing Up Saws Growing Obsessed

Author:Matthew Healy

“Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.”

Growing Up Growing Anxiety

Author:Jane McGonigal

“Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.”

Boys Growing Up Growing Skating

Author:Amy Smart

“Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.”

Growing Up Growing Starting Picky

Author:Mike Trout

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