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“I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. Without any conscious intention on my part, animals come to play a significant role in my fiction: in Three Junes, a parrot and a pack of collies; in The Whole World Over, a bulldog named The Bruce. To dog lovers, by the way, I recommend My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley -- by far the best 'animal book' I've ever read.”

“I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room”

Writing Death Hospital

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.”

Book Country States House Grew Months Grew Up Train Library Lending Parcel Each Month

Author:Garry Disher

“I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.”

Two House Strong Grew Grew Up Very Strong Mum Strong Women Older Sister

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”

Way Stills Two Mother Three House Grew Conversation Grew Up Adults Female Cat Males Grandmother Buzz Mother Grandmother Female Friends Three Sisters

Author:James Patterson

“I grew up in a house of forthright women.”

House Grew Grew Up

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.”

Kind House Emotion Grew Grew Up Sticks No Love

Author:Billy Corgan

“I grew up in a house that had a whole lot of trouble. As much trouble as you could imagine.”

Whole House Imagine Trouble Grew Grew Up

Author:Lynda Barry

“I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.”

Years House Enjoy Comedy Grew Grew Up My Family

Author:Adam Sandler

“I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.”

States House Grew Grew Up Constant Mourning

Author:Maurice Sendak

“I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'”

Way Home Remember Father House Five Failing Brother Grew Dad Grew Up Horrible My Brother Coming Home

Author:Sara Blakely

“I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.”

Ifs Years Shows Father Games House Winning Lost White Danger Grew Grew Up Hollywood Notion Teeth Auditions You Re Pretty Good Years White Teeth

Author:Chris Pine

“I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.”

School House Grew Grew Up Teenager Homework

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.”

People Important Play Bigs House Language Existence Talking Fire Television Grew Grew Up Laughter Bars Evening Teenager Tease

Author:Dylan Moran

“I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.”

People House Grew Grew Up Innocent Shocked Taboo

Author:Sarah Silverman

“I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.”

House Dog Grew Grew Up Bunch

Author:Lee Pace

“I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.”

World Running Romance House Water Views Grew Office Grew Up Miles Posts Closest Post Office Running Water

Author:Rick Perry

“I grew up in a house with very few books.”

Book House Grew Grew Up

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.”

Made Book School House Interest Grew Grew Up Nun

Author:John Dufresne

“I grew up in a household in which the Bible played very little role.”

Littles Roles Grew Grew Up Household

Author:Frank Moore Cross

“I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.”

Deals Grew Grew Up Standing Beach Clock Wheels Household Franklin Brass New Deal

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.”

Girl

Author:Kiersey Clemons

“I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.”

Writing Wells Shows Together Girl Voice Ability Grew Grew Up Female Males Credit Ran Neighborhood Household Older Sister Female Voice

Author:Wally Lamb

“I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.”

Important Hard School Mother Opportunity Grew Dad Grew Up High School Labor My Dad Drivers Milk Household Secretary Truck Good Education Truck Driver

Author:Dick Gephardt

“I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.”

Home Grew Grew Up Household Lungs

Author:Frank Langella

“I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.”

Mother Reading Father Grew Grew Up Household Power Of Words

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“I grew up in a household where the FryDaddy was always bubbling, and butter and salt were never in short supply. I've never been one to choose the healthy option over the non-healthy option if the healthy option was lacking in taste. I believe a little bad is good for you from time to time. When it comes to maintaining a healthy soul, nothing beats traveling.”

Ifs Believe Littles Soul I Believe Grew Healthy Taste Grew Up Beats Salt Household Lacking Maintaining Healthy Soul

Author:Ian Anthony Dale

“I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw.”

Reason Feelings Saws Cutting Grew Grew Up Doctors Chains Household Limbs

Author:Jodi Picoult

Source: Sing You Home: A Novel

“I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.”

Grew Grew Up Household

Author:Chris Hayes

“I grew up in a household with two brothers and we lived in the bush. We were constantly building weapons and forts and things. But I didn't set out to be an action hero.”

Two Action Building Brother Grew Hero Grew Up Weapons Household Forts Two Brothers Action Heroes

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one”

Has Beens Problem Grew Grew Up Household Supportive

Author:Mario Lopez

“I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for moral enquiry in young minds and points us to questions beyond the material.”

Giving Mind Children Young Moral Materials Grew Grew Up Tradition Our Children Raised Framework Enquiry Young Minds Jewish Tradition Jewish Family

Author:Michael Sandel

“I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.”

Father Sound Heard Grew Grew Up Village Fascinated Tribes Close Friends

Author:Maya Beiser

“I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.”

Littles School Grew Grew Up Weekend Public School Suburbs Costco

Author:Rooney Mara

“I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.”

Littles Wanted Girl Courses Black Worst Dying Grew Grew Up Clever Nightmare Village Worst Things Marry Me

Author:Arundhati Roy

“I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.”

Different Grew Grew Up Picks Accents Different Place

Author:Ruth Negga

“I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.”

Taught Grew Grew Up And Love God Love Household Respecting Others

Author:Sho Baraka

“I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.”

Men Art Boys Grew Grew Up Martial Arts Gym

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.”

Littles Cities Class Middle Grew Grew Up London Lifestyle Middle Class City Life

Author:Ed Westwick

“I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.”

World Giving Important Wanted School Parent Class Middle This World Grew Grew Up Resources Middle Class Household Never Fear Good School

Author:Annie Lennox

“I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.”

Kids House Obvious Sentiments

Author:Pieter Hugo

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

Lasts America Class Middle Century Grew Grew Up Middle Class Middle Class Family

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.”

Effort Military Style Grew Grew Up Brutal Uniforms Military Family

Author:Max Cannon

“I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.”

People School Girl Military Grew Grew Up Moved Welcome Military Family New Girl

Author:Olivia Munn

“I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!”

Might Religion Fighting Religious Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Constant My Dad Atheist My Mom Household Agnostic

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.”

Home Kids Beautiful Mother White Poverty Grew Grew Up Parks Trash Mobile Playgrounds White Trash Loving Mother

Author:Taryn Manning

“I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.”

Kind Mother Environment Modern Grew Grew Up Prejudice Grandfather Business Environment Modern Business

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.”

Environment Grew Grew Up Buddhist

Author:Uma Thurman

“I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.”

Grew Grew Up Musician Musical

Author:Joshua Bell

“I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.”

Done Play Growing Up Growing Inspire Grew Drink Grew Up Majority Musical Hawaii Ukulele

Author:Dwayne Johnson

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