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“I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.”

Grew Grew Up Hippie Counterculture Counter Culture

Author:Steve Earle

“I grew up cursing a lot.”

Grew Grew Up Cursing

Author:Adam Sandler

“I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.”

Felt Parent Natural Grew Grew Up Cursing

Author:Adam Sandler

“I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.”

Littles Body Found Enjoy College Grew Balance Exercise Grew Up Dancing Musical Theatre Best Things Gym Rats Musical Theatre Gym Rats

Author:Christine Lakin

“I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.”

Made Teacher Grew Grew Up Dancing Scary Dancer Ballet Strict Drills Sergeants Ballet Teachers Drill Sergeant

Author:Kate Hudson

“I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.”

Firsts Class Study College Grew Grew Up Feminist

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.”

Sports Grew Grew Up Extremes Extreme Sports

Author:Daniella Monet

“I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.”

Done Stuff Parent Natural Party Grew Grew Up Obsessed Birthday Hops Copies Twists Sock Birthday Party Brittany

Author:Brittany Snow

“I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.”

Art Creation Farming

Author:Carolee Schneemann

“I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.”

Grew Grew Up Bars

Author:Jewel

“I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.”

Art Fighting Stuff Enjoy Grew Scene Grew Up Martial Arts Athletic

Author:Aaron Yoo

“I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.”

Kind Art Real Acting Serious Grew Grew Up Martial Arts

Author:Jody Hill

“I grew up doing musical theater.”

Grew Grew Up Theater Musical Musical Theater

Author:Chris Colfer

“I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.”

Happened Heard Grew Lucky Grew Up Singing Musical Theatre Tape Florida Right Time Right Place Demos Sony Orlando Musical Theatre

Author:Mandy Moore

“I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.”

Kind Done Shows Bigs Would Be Mines Grew Horror Grew Up Rocky Horror

Author:Guy Pearce

“I grew up doing plays - I went to a stage school after school - and it's always something that I've wanted to do, but, in a weird way, if you do television and film and you didn't go to drama school and don't have a theatrical background, it's hard to get your foot in the door. In the same way that it is for theater actors to get into television and film. There's a weird prejudice that goes both ways.”

School Film Drama Prejudice Theatrical After School

Author:Christian Cooke

“I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.”

Knows Body Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Your Body Rhythm Beach Sitcom Beach Boys

Author:John Stamos

“I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.”

Kind House Painting Grew Grew Up Landscaping

Author:Miles Teller

“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”

Feels Children Home Stage Grew Comfortable Grew Up Teenager

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it.”

Young Grew Grew Up Theater Enjoyed

Author:Italia Ricci

“I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. Studied it in college, got my degree in it, and never really had the guts to do it professionally. But one summer, a friend of mine was with an extras agency and asked me if I wanted to be an extra with him in a movie, and I was, like, "Sure." At lunch, the writer came up to me and asked me to audition for a role. I got it, and it sort of snowballed from there.”

Ifs Wanted Young Roles Mines College Grew Degrees Summer Grew Up Theater Enjoyed Agency Extras Guts Lunch Auditions

Author:Italia Ricci

“I grew up doing theater, so I'm used to working with people where you can definitely ask another person a question or advice or say, "Hey, let's try it this way," or "What do you think if I did it this way?"”

People Ifs Thinking Way Trying Persons Used Asks Advice Grew Grew Up Theater Hey

Author:Fiona Gubelmann

“I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.”

People Way I Can Country Hard States Minutes Grew Mountain Grew Up West Woods Hills Coal Virginia Livelihood Mining Kentucky Hard Life Tennessee West Virginia Logging Coal Mining

Author:Ralph Stanley

“I grew up driving old pickup trucks on the ranch with my dad, and I still always find myself driving like I'm out in an open field, except I'm in LA on La Cienega in the middle of rush-hour traffic.”

Stills Hours Middle Fields Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Driving Traffic Truck Pickups Rush Hour Open Fields Pickup Trucks

Author:Amber Heard

“I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.”

Children Done Humanity Producers My Children South Africa Success In Life Apartheid

Author:Charlize Theron

“I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.”

Years War Fall Wall Grew Cold Grew Up Nuclear Nightmare Cold War Apocalypse Vivid Berlin Berlin Wall

Author:Justin Cronin

“I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.”

Long Problem Past Powerful Teacher Students Musician Capitalism Western Ideology Propaganda Communist Soviet Soviet Union Very Powerful Rock Music Long Hair

Author:Albert Kuvezin

“I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.”

World Way Looks War Saws Revolution Grew Grew Up Impact Iraq Iran

Author:Navid Negahban

“I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.”

Feels Years Grew Eating Grew Up Drinking Milk Cows Cheese New Yorkers Sixteen Hamburgers Helpers Macaroni Macaroni And Cheese

Author:Adam Rapp

“I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.”

People Shows Streets Grew Eating Grew Up Beach Tacos Burritos

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.”

Age Grows Levels Growing Up Five Grew Grew Up Racing

Author:Justin Allgaier

“I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Children Stories Fall Wonder Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up India Falling In Love East Tales Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I grew up fascinated by such concepts as the Vulcan mind meld, and sometimes thinking about how a mere human could one day transition to the planetary consciousness by fusing his or her mind with other minds. It turned out that future is way more fully loaded with options than I have ever thought possible. Thanks to exponential techno-advances, science fiction turns into science fact, every single day.”

Science Future Science Fiction Human Mind Vulcan Mind Meld Planetary Consciousness

Author:Alex M. Vikoulov

Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution

“I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.”

People Attention Comedy Grew Grew Up Capture Fascinated

Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

“I grew up feeling like a weirdo like many kids do. But I was lucky to find my own home for peculiar children. I went to a school for the gifted in Florida, and it was full of kids who - we were all strange together. And that was a real blessing.”

Children Real Feelings Home Kids School Together My Own Strange Grew Blessing Lucky Grew Up Peculiar Florida Gifted Weirdo

Author:Ransom Riggs

“I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.”

Feelings Changed Grew Grew Up Ugly Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Nicollette Sheridan

“I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.”

Thinking Children Long Feelings Grows Growing Up Conditions Grew Gay Grew Up Tragedy Meaningful Leaving Me Having Children Long Relationship

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.”

Moving Grew Ocean Grew Up Flying Sailing

Author:Jane Alison

“I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.”

People Mean Faces Father Grew Grew Up Roots Helpful Protestants Evangelical Fundamentalist God Image Pharisees

Author:William P. Young

“I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I think it's no accident that I ended up studying the geography of India and knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers and all of that. I loved it. I think it gives a sense of space and a can-do-ness that was very powerful.”

Thinking Giving Beautiful Names Can Do Space Powerful Knowing Study Grew Mountain Grew Up Rivers India Accidents Valleys Geography Very Powerful Very Beautiful Camping

Author:Diana L. Eck

“I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.”

Stills Real Song Church Grew Grew Up Standards My Favorite Missionary Timeless Baptists Hymns

Author:Josh Turner

“I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.”

Three Church Week Grew Grew Up My Family Three Times Going To Church

Author:Debby Boone

“I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I knew that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. But I loved sin. The Bible says that sin is pleasurable for a season and I loved it.”

Way Jesus Heaven Church Sin Plans Grew Dad Grew Up Seasons My Dad Pastor Going To Church

Author:Dominic Balli

“I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.”

Way Art Artist Grew Grew Up Museums Privileged Art And Artists

Author:Thelma Golden

“I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.”

School Used New York Grew Mom Grew Up High School My Mom Used To Be Broadway

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.”

People Kind Ideas Shows Crazy Grew Grew Up Pops Loud Intimate Aggressive Being Real Punk Pop Music Combining

Author:Grimes

“I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.”

Way Kind School Grows Growing Up Grew Months Grew Up High School Shooting Odd Maturity

Author:Logan Lerman

“I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.”

Stills Bits Television Tvs Grew Grew Up Mediums

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.”

Years Millions Seeing Products Grew Grew Up Stores Als Ambassadors

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to plays and symphony concerts and to the museums. Theater captured my imagination. I just loved the idea of that box, which is essentially what a stage is from a certain distance, a box with all this life going on in it. So, I was eleven when I wrote my first play. Of course, it was horrible.”

Imagination Nice Mom Distance My Mom Horrible My Imagination

Author:David Small

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