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“I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.”

Want Years Made Today Culture Religious Behinds Grew Grew Up Tradition Accepted Who I Am Leaving Me Religious Family

Author:Brendon Urie

“I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.”

Age Religious Family Five Grew Grew Up Ran Reading Books Religious Love Religious Family

Author:Akhmad Kadyrov

“I grew up in a very responsible, social, Democratic community, and destruction was a bad word. But, in California, destruction is a rad word. The juxtaposition of the two is really what made me into who I am today, in my battles with how fun it is to be bad, and how wrong it is to be bad.”

Made Two Today Fun Social Community Grew Battle Grew Up Destruction Responsible Democratic Who I Am California Juxtaposition Bad Word Rad

Author:Rie Rasmussen

“I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.”

Home Grew Grew Up Starting Zero Secular

Author:A. J. Jacobs

“I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.”

Thinking Want Home Today Able Loses Simple Perspective Grew Grew Up Backgrounds Honored

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.”

Way Years Littles I Can Remember House Stuff Parent Five Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Discovery Seven Eight Get Away Brothers And Sisters Dna Bathroom Listening To Music

Author:John Varvatos

“I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.”

People Grew Grew Up Towns Florida Small Town

Author:Miles Teller

“I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.”

World Littles Beautiful Grew Grew Up Towns Conservative Scotland Small Town Very Beautiful

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.”

World Grew Grew Up Standards Towns Indian Small Town

Author:Mira Nair

“I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape.”

Years Firsts Two Fun Waiting College Regret Grew Terrible Shapes Limits Grew Up Grades Two Years Southern Baptists I Regret Southern Baptist

Author:John Grisham

“I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'”

Art Country Grew Grew Up Towns

Author:Steve Kazee

“I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.”

Used Grew Safe Grew Up Lovely Neighborhood

Author:Aja Naomi King

“I grew up in a very toxic home.”

Home Grew Grew Up Toxic

Author:Bethenny Frankel

“I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.”

Wells House Grew Grew Up Village Cows

Author:Olesya Rulin

“I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.”

Way Mind Speak Realizing Grew Grew Up Limitation

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.”

Knows Way Ends Feelings Seems Might Community Knowing Sea Grew Grew Up Enlightenment Sick Towns Wings Absence My Way Australia Fishing Gaps Conservation Hook Marine Redneck Dose Spears Hunted

Author:Tim Winton

“I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.”

Inspirational Firsts Dream Hands Wanted Father Chance Company Class Poverty Saws Grew Despair Grew Up Bitterness American Dream Working Class No Hope

Author:Howard Schultz

“I grew up in a working-class community. I come from a big family. I knew Donald Trump would win because I knew he is what poor Americans think a rich person looks like. And I knew that Hillary Clinton would annoy voters in their tens of millions, because she basically sucked at communicating with poor people and seemed like a person who'd been powerful and rich for decades. She was a disastrous candidate. I mean, she was up against a psychopath and she still lost. The country's thinking was beyond her, literally.”

People Thinking Mean Winning Community Poor Powerful Rich Clinton Communicate Annoying Poor People Psychopath

Author:Andrew O'Hagan

“I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.”

Knows Writing Class Grew Grew Up Working Class

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.”

People World Magic Grew Grew Up Credit Cards Credit Card Budgeting

Author:Anthea Turner

“I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.”

World Play Girl Rocks Grew Grew Up Rock N Roll

Author:Joan Jett

“I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, "Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don't understand why everybody is not this."”

Men World Hate Simple Mom Authority Female Feminist My Mom Branding Hate Me

Author:Trevor Noah

“I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.”

World States Social Grew Grew Up Democratic Exception Norm

Author:Tony Judt

“I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.”

Home Father Boys Grew Amount Grew Up Bases Abusive Like A Boy

Author:Janice Dickinson

“I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because its not necessarily the easiest of lives.”

Children Young Acting Grew Grew Up Responsible Routes Discouraged

Author:Jack Davenport

“I grew up in an age where I loved going and buying a physical record. Things that were digital and all that stuff, it wasn't around. So I loved going and buying an album and looking through the inserts and reading stuff and seeing pictures.”

Age Reading Stuff Records Seeing Grew Grew Up Albums Buying Digital Insert

Author:Jason Aldean

“I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.”

Grew Grew Up Broads Agnostic

Author:Laura Z. Hobson

“I grew up in an all-white community.”

Community White Grew Grew Up

Author:Gayle King

“I grew up in an apartment my whole life. It was just me, my mom, and my brother - she supported us. And we've always liked driving through rich neighborhoods, especially around Christmas. We would always admire the wealth. I always had this strange feeling with it.”

Whole Feelings Wealth Rich Strange Brother Grew Mom Grew Up My Mom Whole Life Driving Admire My Brother Neighborhood Apartment

Author:George Clarke

“I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.”

Way Country Left Grew Grew Up Adults Silly Ignorant Household Apolitical

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.”

Years Growth Numbers Youth Grew Grew Up Areas Beach California Orange County Degradation Orange County

Author:Aaron Peirsol

“I grew up in an artistic family where everyone was doing something in one field of the arts or another. I was I think 12 years old when I did my first acting at the Actor's Studio and James Dean once said that the only reason to become and actor is because you have to. I think that you know from a young age if that is a certain rush that you're going to need to satisfy you and to make you feel fulfilled - and if you don't then you shouldn't do it. It's just too brutal of a business most of the time.”

Thinking Art Reason Age Acting Artistic Brutal

Author:John Buffalo Mailer

“I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.”

Art Made Government Artist Community New York Building Grew Grew Up Sake

Author:Vin Diesel

“I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during ‘God save the King’. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so ‘enlightened’ that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions.”

Patriotism Left Wing Intellectuals Intelligentsia

Author:George Orwell

“I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.”

Culture Grew Grew Up Atmosphere

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.”

People Thinking Way Long Different House Knowing Listening Grew Type Industry Grew Up Educated Long Way Eloquent Eclectic Different Music

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.”

Saws Grew Grew Up Entertainment Ups & Downs Susceptible

Author:Will Ferrell

“I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.”

Way Writing Talking Environment Grew Grew Up Jokes Sarcasm Sarcastic Pun

Author:Allan Sloan

“I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.”

Thinking Children Littles Ideas Fall Tree Grew Grew Up Falling In Love Eras New Life Palms Palm Trees

Author:Paul Theroux

“I grew up in an era when strange adults would grab me on the street and say: 'Don't do that.' You never see that these days. 'Hi, we took the liberty of spanking your son.' Oh thanks, my hand was getting worn.”

Hands Liberty Streets Strange Son Grew Grew Up Adults Thanks Eras These Days Worn Your Son Spanking

Author:Emo Philips

“I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.”

Grew Grew Up Treasure Eras Chests Orchestra Treasure Chests

Author:James Levine

“I grew up in an extremely musical atmosphere. There was a lot of music and singing around. I never really thought about one not singing, as a person. I've always sung and made music, it was just self-understood.”

Singing Musical Atmosphere

Author:Thomas Hampson

“I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.”

Art Literature Parent Grew Grew Up Athletic

Author:Bill Walton

“I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.”

Feels Grew Grew Up My Family Conservative Orthodox Surroundings

Author:Don Rickles

“I grew up in an underprivileged home.”

Home Grew Grew Up Underprivileged

Author:Chris Kirkpatrick

“I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.”

Grew Grew Up

Author:Abdellatif Kechiche

“I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.”

Thinking World Problem Found Social Bits Realizing Teacher Influence Position Grew Lucky Grew Up Impact Social Capital

Author:Matt Damon

“I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.”

Grows Growing Up Grew Healthy Grew Up Areas West Miles Detroit Dose Motown Arbors

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.”

Grew Grew Up Buddy Arizona

Author:Michael Biehn

“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.”

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