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“I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.”

Courses Worst Example Grew Grew Up Discrimination Ireland Northern Ireland Derry

“I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.”

People Evil Environment Grew Republican Grew Up Democrat Supposed To Be Racist Detroit Evil People

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.”

Years Believe Three Father I Believe Brother Grew Grew Up Prison Innocent Welfare Serving Three Years Detroit

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.”

Bigs Mother Grew Band Grew Up Detroit

Author:Glenn Frey

“I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.”

Ifs Years Different Grew Lucky Clothes Grew Up Shoes Israel Shirts Pairs Pants Appreciated Pair Of Shoes Orphanage Handouts

Author:Elie Tahari

“I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.”

Artist Feet Grew Grew Up South Village Sculptors Idyllic

Author:Donald Sinden

“I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.”

Minutes Grew Grew Up South Parks Chicago

Author:Richard Roeper

“I grew up in Doraville, Georgia and I ate barbecued ribs and chicken fried steak, and all kinds of cheesy grits, you know, and I never even thought twice about it.”

Knows Kind Grew Grew Up All Kinds Chickens Georgia Grit Steak Cheesy Ribs

Author:Kathy Freston

“I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.”

Littles Age Father Bits Born Football Grew Little Bit Grew Up Decided Nine Bunch California Chicago Georgia Softball Atlanta Olympian Falcon

Author:Elana Meyers

“I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.”

Kind Used Fun Grew Grew Up My Friends Over The Top Dubai

Author:Karl Wolf

“I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.”

Different Culture Grew Grew Up Filled West East Intense Indian Brooklyn Indian Culture Neighbourhoods

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I grew up in East St. Louis so I wanted to play baseball as a kid. Then I moved to Nebraska and became a football fan and wanted to play football. But I've always been fighting. Growing up in East St. Louis was hard. You had to fight there.”

Hard Play Kids Wanted Fighting Growing Up Growing Fans Football Grew Grew Up Baseball Moved East Nebraska Football Fan

Author:Houston Alexander

“I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.”

Grew Grew Up East Tennessee East Tennessee

Author:Kenny Chesney

“I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.”

Thinking Littles Fun Grew Grew Up England Greek Latin Turned Off Latin And Greek

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.”

Mean School Winning Left Teaching Grew Grew Up England Physics Prize Biology Chemistry Nobel Nobel Prize

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I grew up in environment that had more women in science.”

Science Environment Grew Grew Up Women In Science

Author:Fabiola Gianotti

“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”

Want Film Moving Used Culture Tvs Grew Grew Up Europe Faster

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.”

Funny Comedy Grew Grew Up Europe Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.”

Firsts Long School Film Three Class Roles Grew Grew Up Long Time High School Towns Chicago Supporting Roles Lowes

Author:John Cusack

“I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.”

Fall Grew Grew Up Rivers Towns Backgrounds Modest Massachusetts Portuguese Bakeries

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.”

School Funny Grew Grew Up Jokes University Florida

Author:Daniel Tosh

“I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.”

Grew Grew Up Horse Majority Suits Boots Riding Florida Jeans Bathing Bathing Suits

Author:Kate Upton

“I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.”

Way Book Home Wanted Grew Grew Up Rising Florida Tigers

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.”

Ifs Girl Grew Comfortable Grew Up Dancing Florida

Author:Channing Tatum

“I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.”

Firsts Language Grew Grew Up Cooking France French Cooking

Author:Robert Stack

“I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.”

Grows Fronts Television Grew Grew Up

Author:Gilda Radner

“I grew up in front of a TV.”

Fronts Tvs Grew Grew Up

Author:Jemaine Clement

“I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.”

People Men Young Seeing Fronts Grew Basketball Grew Up Young Man

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I grew up in Georgia and I think if you're raised in the South it's where a lot of the war was fought, and it's just more present in the sort of psyche of the South. So I've always just been interested and sort of fascinated by [Civil War].”

Ifs Thinking War Grew Grew Up South Raised Civil War Fascinated Georgia Raised In The South

Author:Ed Helms

“I grew up in Germany. Europe is far more liberal than America. Even most conservative right-wing parties over there are to the left of the US Democrats on many issues. For example, it wouldn't occur to even the most right-wing party in Europe to oppose universal healthcare. But this isn't a book about politics. It's about sex and drugs. You know, the good stuff.”

Politics Germany Healthcare Obamacare Drug Addiction Liberals Bernie Sanders Universal Healthcare Sex And Drugs

Author:Oliver Markus Malloy

Source: Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Going to New York

“I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.”

Facts School Acting Study Stage College Grew Grew Up High School Areas Moved West South Raised University Miles Los Angeles Chicago Sensibility Comedic Illinois

Author:Ryan McPartlin

“I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.”

Grew Dad Grew Up Village Lennon Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Yancy Butler

“I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.”

Feels Trying Faces Lying Sound Sides Like You Grew Grew Up Moved East Teenager Believable Harlem East Side

Author:Zoe Leonard

“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Morning Know How Grew Grew Up Cooking Block Cooks Meals Grandmother Sunday My Grandmother Refrigerators Harlem Sunday Morning Lard

Author:Richard Carmona

“I grew up in Hawaii and I think those islands are some of the most amazing places on the planet.”

Thinking Planets Grew Grew Up Islands Hawaii Most Amazing Amazing Places

Author:Mateus Ward

“I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.”

Water Grew Grew Up Hawaii

Author:Kelly Preston

“I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood.”

Rich Grew Grew Up Hollywood Neighborhood

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.”

Purpose Parent Saws Grew Industry Grew Up Doctors Hollywood California Surgeons Motion Pictures Peacefulness

Author:Spencer Johnson

“I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit”

Names Grew Grew Up Hollywood Detroit

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.”

People Imagination Grew Grew Up Familiar Ballet Mecca Honolulu Hula

Author:Joan Chen

“I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.”

Age Suffering Father Grew Grew Up Sick Hospitals

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.”

People Remember Mother Black Growing Up Growing Color Grew Grew Up Hatred Skins Theater Drinking Silly African American Sat Black People Fountain Houston Balconies Housekeepers

Author:Dennis Quaid

“I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.”

Grew Grew Up Setting Settings Houston

Author:Mireille Enos

“I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.”

People Feels Bits Arms Grew Mountain Ocean Grew Up Lovely Friendly Length Ireland Utah

Author:Roma Downey

“I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.”

Grew Politician Grew Up Ireland

Author:Jasmine Guinness

“I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.”

Ifs Enjoy Taught Grew Grew Up Busy Granted Queens Height Freak Too Busy No Money

Author:Lucy Liu

“I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.”

Play Mother Community Grew Grew Up Theatre Mississippi Suburbia Community Theatre Jackson Mississippi

Author:Beth Henley

“I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much music going on there. As a kid, I was playing there all the time and learning a lot about music.”

Kids

Author:Eldar Djangirov

“I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.”

Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Dinner Heat Kentucky

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.”

Kind Important Lasts Mother Opinion Generations Grew Grew Up Happenings Britain Canada Glowing

Author:Robert MacNeil

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