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“I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.”

Natural Animal Existence Dog Grew Grew Up Horse Seven Pet Goldfish

Author:Isabel Lucas

“I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.”

Grew Grew Up

Author:Zak Orth

“I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.”

Firsts Book Done Grew Grew Up Research Worthwhile Tangible

Author:Paul Allen

“I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element.”

Littles Bits Fashion Grew Mom Industry Elements Little Bit Grew Up Exciting My Mom Editors Performers Music Industry Vogue Disorganized

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing.”

People Thinking Grew Gay Grew Up Camps Gay People Guessing

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.”

Thinking Black White Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Being Cool

Author:Chad Hugo

“I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.”

Different Whole Acting Grew Grew Up Horse Cameras Different Things Riding

Author:Emilia Clarke

“I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.”

Ifs Stuff Animal Grew Grew Up Gun Shots Skins Vegetables Bows Hunters Compass Arrows Binoculars

Author:Tim Allen

“I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.”

Grew Grew Up Jazz

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.”

Men Father Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Uncles Intimidated

Author:Dolly Parton

“I grew up around media so for me I've always been interested in that topic, whether it's a complete satire or a documentary. I love anything that touches on the state of information versus entertainment and what's newsworthy and what's not.”

Satire

Author:Patrick Wilson

“I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.”

Used Song Father House Interest Rocks Grew Grew Up Musician Standards Folks Rock And Roll Trailers Motown

Author:Timothy B. Schmit

“I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.”

People Found Simple Pleasure Grew Grew Up Enjoyed Day To Day Simple Things

Author:Josh Turner

“I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.”

People Kind Spiritual Religious

Author:Beth Grant

“I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.”

Writing Sleep Creative Car Poet Grew Dad Grew Up Cat Window My Dad Novelists Highways Creative Writing Wrecks Sleeping In Apprenticeship Car Wreck

Author:Lucinda Williams

“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.”

House Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Bass Salsa Freestyle Rave Techno Bachata

Author:Pitbull

“I grew up around so many beautiful things. My mother's jewelry and purses - they're very much statement pieces. Again, that sort of over-the-top Russian thing where it looks like treasure. I always say to my husband, you don't ever have to get me another piece of jewelry. When your mother is this amazing woman, a North Star, sometimes you want a simpler presentation of yourself.”

Sometimes Beautiful Mother Husband My Husband Beautiful Things Jewelry Amazing Woman

Author:Natasha Gregson Wagner

“I grew up around some great philosophers: they were coal miners and cowboys born in the 1920s. They were also vets of World War II. Listen to your elders, there isn’t any better wisdom for you.”

Wisdom Elders Cowboys Coal Miners

Author:Stanley Victor Paskavich

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“I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.”

People Kids Parent Grew Grew Up Tough

Author:John Darnielle

“I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.”

Men Strong Boys Grew Waste Grew Up Weak Wasting Time Strong Women Weak Man

Author:Robert Jordan

“I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.”

Memories Grew Grew Up Garden Best Memories

Author:Emmanuelle Seigner

“I grew up around the pool with my sisters. Both of my sisters swam. I was always there. So I thought, why not? My mom put us in the water for water safety, so we were comfortable in the water in case anything ever happened. I learned that way, and started liking it more and more.”

Way Water Cases Happened Grew Mom Comfortable Grew Up Safety My Mom Why Not My Sister Pool Water Safety

Author:Michael Phelps

“I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.”

Spirit Mother Fall Blood Grew Grew Up Actresses Theatre Who I Am Chairs Fabric

Author:Alicia Keys

“I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.”

Way Needs Grew Easier Grew Up Function Crew Lenses Operators Cinematographers Cameraman

Author:David Douglas

“I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.”

Whole Beautiful Grew Approach Grew Up Catholic Males Bothered

Author:Patty Griffin

“I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.”

Children Bigs Stars Differences Grew Grew Up Actresses

Author:Natasha Leggero

“I grew up as a country boy.”

Country Boys Grew Grew Up Country Boy

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.”

Feels Made Class Modern Listening Grew Comfortable Grew Up Connections Dancer Ballet Tied Classical Music Drummer Music And Dance Ballet Class

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.”

Should Ideas Mother Grew Grew Up Dancing Indian Classic Dancer Temples Ballet Great Idea Madras

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“I grew up as a democrat so I always thought that it was just half the govt that was evil. But now of course I'm a little bit more of a grown up and I understand that it's actually one party rule. and its professional wrestling.”

Politics Democracy Congress Corruption United States Of America 2020 Waste Of Time

Author:Jimmy Dore

“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”

Thinking Knows Hands Kids Poor Grew Paper Clothes Grew Up Canada Toronto Forged Second Hand New Clothes Second Hand Clothes

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.”

Thinking Book Home School Remember Stars Fans Middle Grew Findings Grew Up Fairs Originals Series Grades Nuts Influential Bolts Middle School Nuts And Bolts Original Star Trek

Author:Ronald D. Moore

“I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.”

Two Young White Generations Adventure Grew Grew Up Tradition Miracle Hot Moved South Jew Russia Storytelling Appeals Paris Japan Graduates Fifth Seekers Yale Confluence

Author:Bruce Feiler

“I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.”

Dies Player New York Grew Grew Up Honestly Gym Riders Volleyball Membership Horseback Volleyball Player Horseback Riders

Author:Gigi Hadid

“I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.”

Thinking Art Kids Able Artist Community Rich Grew Grew Up Access Museums Concerts Santa Barbara Santa Barbara

Author:Floyd Norman

“I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.”

Littles Kids Enjoy Grew Grew Up Sandwiches Peanuts Jelly Peanut Butter Crackers Peanut Butter And Jelly

Author:Michael T. Flynn

“I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.”

Years Children Littles Kids Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Monsters Garage

Author:Robert Stromberg

“I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.”

Feels I Can Hard Feelings Lying Values Belief Religious Grew Grew Up Weight Impact Guilt Carrie

Author:Amy Adams

“I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.”

Team Fields Grew Grew Up Army

Author:Eric Shinseki

“I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.”

Huge Grew Grew Up Cameras Nuts

Author:Kevin Systrom

“I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.”

Wells Self Taught Grew Reader Lovers Grew Up Novelists Filmmaker Great Film Self Taught

Author:Curtis Hanson

“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

Home Kids Childhood New York Grew Grew Up Sick Asthma Sick Kids

Author:Josh Peck

“I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.”

Young Felt Church Boys Grew Grew Up Connections Catholic Divinity Catholic Church Roman Catholic

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.”

Grew Grew Up Southern Strict Baptists Youngsters Adherence Southern Baptist

Author:E. O. Wilson

“I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.”

Knows Years Different Sports Fans Grew Fame Grew Up Accomplishment Being The Best Halls Awards Longevity Hall Of Fame Sports Fan

Author:Chuck D

“I grew up as a tomboy. I was always barefoot, running races with the guys on the block, climbing trees, and beating kids up.”

Running Kids Guy Race Tree Grew Grew Up Block Climbing Barefoot Running Race Climbing Trees

Author:Edie Falco

“I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.”

Persons Girl Class Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Sarcastic Clown Skinny Very Sarcastic Sarcastic Person

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.”

Thinking Wells I Can Film Artist Stuff Black Fiction Design Grew Horror Creatures Grew Up Gun Down And Science Fiction Categories Hawks Black Hawk Down

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!”

Thinking Children Book Mother Reading Grew Grew Up Daughter Passionate My Daughter Harry Potter Potters Only Child Plowing

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for education and encouraged me as a child when I had strong interests in both math and science, but we really didn't have much by way of educational role modeling in our family.”

Way Children Two School Strong Parent Interest Roles Grew Grew Up High School Educational Math Enormous Our Family Role Models Modeling Only Child Math And Science

Author:Dale Jamieson

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