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“I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.”

“I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.”

Grew Grew Up East Dictatorship East Africa

“I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.”

Thinking Needs Democracy Grew Grew Up Appreciate Democratic Dictatorship Involvement Democratic Society Random Things

Author:Paul van Dyk

“I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.”

Problem Running Culture Difficult Silence Situation Grew Grew Up Dictatorship Difficult Situations

Author:Julia Alvarez

“I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.”

Christian Difficult Environment Grew Mom Grew Up My Mom My Sister

Author:Melody Carlson

“I grew up in a dysfunctional family.”

Grew Grew Up Dysfunctional Family

Author:Melissa Gilbert

“I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.”

Important America Belief Grows Ability Successful Grew Grew Up Core Being Successful Small Business

Author:Karen Mills

“I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.”

People Feels Trying Home Stage Grew Grew Up Management Chaos Feels Right Anger Management

Author:Art Alexakis

“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.”

Political Family Issues Grew Grew Up Political Issues

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.”

Knows Littles Father Growth Interest Religious Subjects Grew Birth Grew Up Islam

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?”

Want Needs Choices Actors Felt Grew Grew Up

Author:James Badge Dale

“I grew up in a family of educators - my dad was a professor, my mom was a high school grammar and French teacher - so certainly my entire life education was stressed as incredibly important. And I think especially for my parents, who are both immigrants, and when immigrants come to this country, they understand that education is something that no one can take from them. You might leave the country with absolutely nothing, but no one can take your education from you.”

Thinking Important Country School Parent Teacher Mom Dad High School My Dad My Mom Stressed Educator

Author:Soledad O'Brien

“I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.”

People Fashion Grew Grew Up Obsessed

Author:Michael Kors

“I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.”

Enough Strong Grew Grew Up Female Screens Bread Winner Fierce Opinionated

Author:Melonie Diaz

“I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.”

Bigs Grew Mom Republican Grew Up Vote My Mom Welcome Instruction Adulthood Levers

Author:Tina Fey

“I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.”

Secret Grew Grew Up Pathology

Author:Naomi Judd

“I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.”

Way Bigs Mother Actors Strong Felt Emotional Taught Grew Approach Grew Up Capacity Connections Strong Women Respect Women Emotional Connection Big Sister Strong Emotional

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I grew up in a family of ten. You had to have, like, a burst appendix to get the floor.... My brothers and sisters are very quick, intense, brilliant, very sarcastic people. And they were always right there with you, right there, missing not one little throat clearing.”

People Littles Missing Brother Grew Ten Grew Up Brilliant Intense My Brother Sarcastic Throat Brothers And Sisters Clearing Appendix Very Sarcastic

Author:Mary Robison

“I grew up in a family that believed love was at work in the world. I guess that's a religious idea, though of course it needn't be.”

World Ideas Courses Religious Grew Grew Up

Author:Tim Winton

“I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”

Strong Emotion Failing Particular Grew Grew Up Argument Rage Scales Display Despised Strong Emotions

Author:Koren Zailckas

“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Dream Father Grows Vision Growing Up Grew Grew Up Boundaries Visions And Dreams New Vision

Author:Hafez Nazeri

“I grew up in a family where I was told there were no limitations on me as a girl and I could be anything I wanted to be. It wasn't until I joined the military that I realized that just because I was a woman - just because I had ovaries - I couldn't become a fighter pilot.These structural limitations were the motivation for me becoming a fighter pilot in the first place.”

Motivation Girl Military I Realized Fighter Limitation

Author:Martha McSally

“I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.”

Made Mother Grew Skills Grew Up Clothings Lots Of Money

Author:Marcy Kaptur

“I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.”

Thinking World Want Made Would Be Kids Choices Grows Understanding Worry Growing Up Grew Grew Up Currents Scary Administration Good Life Tick

Author:Bradley Whitford

“I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.”

Grew Conversation Grew Up Nuts Polite Tomatoes Cardigans Polite Conversation

Author:Nadia Giosia

“I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.”

Grew Grew Up Appearance Emphasis Physical Appearance

Author:Pam Grier

“I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.”

Years Church Grew Grew Up Painful Expected Sunday Teenage Teenage Years Church On Sunday

Author:John Irving

“I Grew Up In A Family With No Prejudices. My Father Always Believed There Were Good And Bad In Every Ethnic Background, And Nationality.”

“I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.”

I Can Two Bigs Mother Strong Study Influence Grew Grew Up Very Strong Strong Women Older Sister Loving A Woman

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.”

Kind Happened Grew Grew Up Europe Blessed South Farms South Africa

Author:Candice Swanepoel

“I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.”

Years Grew Grew Up Musician Towns Farms Indiana

Author:Gary Burton

“I grew up in a farming family. I hated cleaning out the chickens but loved hatching them and feeding the new born sheep. The smell of hot milk still has a special resonance for me. Harvest was back-breaking work, though... Where do you think Jesus got his biceps from?”

Thinking Stills Jesus Born Special Grew Grew Up Hot Smell Hated Chickens Milk Sheep Harvest Feeding Cleaning Farming Resonance Biceps Hatching

Author:Joseph Mawle

“I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.”

Dream School Parent Acting Grew Mom Grew Up Following My Mom Eggs Insecure Baskets Pros And Cons

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.”

Way Persons Fun Fronts Figures Grew Grew Up Comedian Obsessed Italian Cake Italian Family

Author:Nadia Giosia

“I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.”

Earth Heaven Rooms Grew Grew Up Forests Protected Heaven And Earth Cathedrals

Author:Anselm Kiefer

“I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.”

Hard Play Fun Environment Hard Work Grew Grew Up Play Hard Fun Loving

Author:Hunter Hayes

“I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.”

People Share Grew Grew Up Contact Select Stressed Protestants Fundamentalist

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I grew up in a funny way.”

Way Funny Grew Grew Up

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.”

Generations Grew Grew Up Technological

Author:Louis C. K.

“I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.”

Fighting Three Lost Grew Grew Up Gym Muhammad Miami

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I grew up in a happy household.”

Grew Grew Up Household

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.”

Ifs Trying Boys Grew Grew Up Ghost Castles Stairs

Author:Gaelen Foley

“I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.”

People School Felt Grew Grew Up High School Conservative Outsiders

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.”

People Feels Race Grew Comfortable Grew Up Neighborhood Mexico Speakers Hispanic

Author:Emily Rios

“I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president”

Mind Said Dream School Mother President Achieve Grew Becoming Grew Up Catholic Ministers Prime Household Prime Minister Roman Catholic Catholic School

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.”

Real Grew Grew Up Hippie Communes

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.”

Reason Grew Grew Up Hollywood Bloodline

Author:Robin Thicke

“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.”

Home Environment Grew Grew Up Esteem Home Environment

Author:Ben Affleck

“I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.”

Want Feels Writing Home Age Passion Three Acting Grew Dad Comfort Band Grew Up Musician Music Is Singing Filled Jazz Musical My Dad Appreciation Grounded Jazz Music Jazz Musician Comfort Food

Author:Molly Ringwald

“I grew up in a home in which loyalty to family was central to my father's outlook. Adolescent changes to my outlook (which set me against parental values) made me very critical of loyalty, reinforced by certain religious writers I found influential at that time. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind. But I remained conflicted about loyalty.”

Mind Home Christian Values Religious Loyalty Influential Parental

Author:John Kleinig

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