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“I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.”

Found Father Grew Grew Up Bike Riot Unemployed

Author:Norman Tebbit

“I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.”

People Age Earth Remember House Waiting Hours Technology Disappear Rings Teenager

Author:Jennifer Egan

“I grew up in the 80s and that was the first time advertising was considered seriously as anything resembling an art form.”

Firsts Art Form Grew Grew Up First Time Advertising 80s

Author:Stanley Donwood

“I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.”

Ifs Looks Government Morning Streets Grew Grew Up Window England Wake Up Ass Bad Ass 80s Daleks

Author:Warren Ellis

“I grew up in the 90s, so Ive definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.”

Looks Courses Youth Grew Grew Up Including Shoes Jelly Overalls

Author:Devin Kelley

“I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.”

Firsts Fun Grew Grew Up France Exposure Blonde American Woman Barbie Alps

Author:Catherine Malandrino

“I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.”

Ifs Age Grew Grew Up South Protest 1960s Riot Ripped American Life Turbulent Times

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I grew up in the American South, the segregated South. Now we have a black man who is president. It was an age of apartheid, and now that's over. It was an age of two superpowers frozen in a cold war, and now that's resolved. So history marches on, except for this Arab-Israel conflict, which seems to have a claim on being eternal.”

Men War Age Black President Cold Conflict Over It March Cold War Superpower Apartheid

Author:Lawrence Wright

“I grew up in the art world.”

World Art Grew Grew Up Art World

Author:Cary Elwes

“I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.”

Giving Trying Years Remember Father Church Sin Ready Grew Giving Up Grew Up Determine Baptists Going To Church Ready To Give Up

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.”

Made My Own Hair Grew Clothes Grew Up Purple Belts

Author:Kesha

“I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.”

Grew Late Grew Up Silly Girlfriend Just Being Bedroom Clown Bronx Being Silly Your Girlfriend

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.”

Known New York Grew Grew Up Areas Rough Bronx

Author:Maggie Siff

“I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.”

Grew Grew Up Rap Bronx Rap Music

Author:Abel Ferrara

“I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'”

Teach Grew Grew Up Bronx

Author:Wesley Snipes

“I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.”

Years Kind Matter Wanted Three Fronts Grew Grew Up Cameras No Matter What Three Years Three Year Olds

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.”

Play Home School Games Watches Tree Tvs Grew Grew Up Video Islands Coming Home Forts Machetes Cayman Islands

Author:Armie Hammer

“I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.”

Kids Age Church Five Pieces Four Grew Grew Up

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.”

World Long Soul Spiritual Church Grew Grew Up Long Time Connections Hunger My Soul Healed Spiritual Connection

Author:Wes Bentley

“I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.”

People Able Wanted Parent Church Listening Grew Grew Up Franklin Marvin

Author:Rahki

“I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.”

Looks Kind Stories School Christian Community Church Answers Groups Youth Grew Grew Up High School Radical Sunday Fellowship Freshman Sunday School Christian Community Bible Stories

Author:Jeremy Lin

“I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.”

Feels Church Grew Grew Up Very Strong

Author:Mary Ann Mobley

“I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.”

Knows Want Feels Kind Enough Helping Certain Dies Church Grew Lucky Grew Up Things To Do Wanting To Die

Author:James McBride

“I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.”

World Action Humanity Church Responsibility Influence Events Grew Grew Up Bounds Contact Grandmother Resurrection My Grandmother Baptists Philadelphia Positive Influence

Author:Will Smith

“I grew up in the church, singing in choirs, and I went to a performing arts school, and I had a gospel group, so music has always been in my blood.”

Art School Church Groups Blood Grew Grew Up Singing Performing Choir Art School Performing Arts

Author:Tweet

“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.”

World Stuff Church Influence Grew Grew Up Raises Pops Traditional Pop Music Hymns Raises Questions

Author:Alan Green

“I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.”

World Mean Different Whole Grew Grew Up Classic Suburbia

Author:Natalie Portman

“I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it.”

Said Country Grew Eating Grew Up Bother Chickens Farms Snakes

Author:Malcolm X

“I grew up in the country surrounded by music.”

Country Grew Grew Up

Author:Martina McBride

“I grew up in the country, which is probably why I'm so attached to the land. I love it. I love the lay of the land. I love walking the land. And I love knowing that it's my land.”

Country Knowing Land Grew Walking Grew Up Lays Environmental

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!”

Kids Games Parent Danger Television Grew Computer Grew Up Countryside Computer Games

Author:Charlie Brooker

“I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!”

Middle Grew Grew Up England Countryside Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Rupert Friend

“I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.”

Grew Grew Up Horse Obsessed Wildlife Countryside

Author:Bella Freud

“I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.”

Body School Mother Grew Shapes Grew Up Visuals Body Shapes

Author:Dawn Angelique

“I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you’ve got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you’re in the charts.”

Millions Week Grew Grew Up Sells Singles

Author:Phil Collins

“I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.”

Wells Stills Action Memories Alive Grew Type Grew Up Racism South Painful Sexism Homophobia Words And Actions

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I grew up in the early '70s in New England.”

Grew Grew Up England New England

Author:Thurston Moore

“I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.”

Ends Three Parent Boys Week Grew Grew Up Catholic Seven East London Household Traders Seven Days

Author:James Herbert

“I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.”

Thinking Stories Song Grew Grew Up Picks Concepts Albums Eras Singles

Author:Nile Rodgers

“I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.”

Opinion Grew Grew Up Eras Hated

Author:Roger Ailes

“I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.”

Knows Feels Stills Grew Grew Up Eras Trust Me Don't Trust

Author:George Lucas

“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.”

Long Stills School Girl Given Sex Information Grew Grew Up Long Time Conservative Experiments Sixty

Author:Elton John

“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.”

People Home School Father Names Felt Class Grew Grew Up Picks Majority Actresses Minorities Outsiders Daddy Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And I came to improvise music from the standpoint of jazz; I was improvising, but within these other genres of music.”

Rocks Grew Grew Up Tradition Jazz Genre Rock And Roll Standpoint Improvising Funk Genres Of Music

Author:Hamid Drake

“I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.”

Age Grew Grew Up Golden Sci Fi Flash Golden Age Flash Gordon

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I grew up in the heart of the Depression.”

Heart Grew Basketball Grew Up

Author:Bob Cousy

“I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.”

Art Ideas Film Fiction Theory Grew Grew Up Posts Heat Postmodern

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.”

Home Felt Memories Plans Special Grew Grew Up Pastor Really Weird

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.”

World Want Film Used Behinds Grew Grew Up Incredibles

Author:Maika Monroe

“I grew up in the inner city and have spent a lot of time there and have dealt with a lot of patients from that area and recognize that we cannot have a strong nation if we have weak inner cities.”

Ifs Strong Nations Cities Grew Grew Up Areas Weak Patient Inner City

Author:Benjamin Carson

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