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“I grew up on a street called Cedar Wood Road and by coincidence my best friends that are around the age 10 became a guy called Bono and another guy called Guggi. It was music again. The fact that pulled us together. They found me quite interesting because I had the right albums underneath my arm. Those days where you carry the latest David Bowie album or Roxie music album as you go to school. I mean you can't play an album at school but you were being cool just showing, "Look what I got."”

Mean Age School Together Guy Interesting Coincidence My Best Friend Other Guys Being Cool

Author:Gavin Friday

“I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.”

Made Stories Mother Streets Mines Grew Grew Up My Friends Dull Killers Curtains Neighbour Serials Serial Killer Lace Burglars Made Up Stories

Author:Nina Bawden

“I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.”

Children Ideas Grew Grew Up No Idea Sugar Estates Plantations Trinidad Expats

Author:Andrea McLean

“I grew up on a tiny little island.”

Littles Grew Grew Up Tiny Islands

Author:Samantha Barks

“I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.”

World America Moving Culture Grew Grew Up Decided Pops Planes Pop Culture Humdrum Bradford American Pop Culture

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.”

Kind Cases Grew Grew Up Doctors Throat Flu Prescriptions Ailments Antibiotics Sore Throat

Author:Carre Otis

“I grew up on Bach and Beethoven and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. That's the only reason I'm thinking of going on.”

Thinking I Can Reason Names Stuff Difficult Quality Modern Listening Grew Grew Up Composer Listening To Music Quality Time

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.”

Whole Fields Grew Basketball Grew Up Track Beast Volleyball Track And Field

Author:Stephan James

“I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.”

Grew Grew Up Movie

Author:Charlize Theron

“I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond girl is an incredible thing for me, because some of my favorite actresses have been Bond girls, like Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman, and they have continued to work and be brilliant. I am honored and flattered to be called that, even though I don't really think my character is Bond-girly, but I'm still going to be labeled as a Bond girl, which is completely brilliant.”

Thinking Has Beens Stills Character Culture Girl Known Grew Honor Grew Up Incredibles My Favorite Actresses Brilliant Britain Honored Flattered Diana Girly Bond Girl

Author:Gemma Arterton

“I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.”

Way Said Different Kids Wanted Certain Culture Particular Grew Grew Up Traveled Better Ways Different Cultures Missouri

Author:Brad Pitt

“I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.”

Grew Grew Up Classic My Best Friend Hardcore Nintendo

Author:Johanna Braddy

“I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!”

Men Years Made Book Guy Team Grew Grew Up My Favorite Comic Comic Book Claws Dressed Up X Men Aluminum

Author:Brian Tee

“I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.”

Grew Grew Up Adults Cartoon

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.”

Thinking Knows Kids Grew Grew Up Cricket Australian

Author:Rachel Griffiths

“I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.”

Made Guy Stuff Moral Grew Grew Up Tales Bad Guys Grotesque Dc Comics Chuckles Comeuppance

Author:George A. Romero

“I grew up on film scores and scores from films.”

Film Grew Grew Up Score Film Scores

Author:Skitch Henderson

“I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.”

Writing Years Film Process Sides Growing Up Saws Growing Grew Grew Up Affected Editing Writing Process Film Set

Author:Alice Englert

“I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.”

Knows Has Beens Running Given Path Trouble Grew Grew Up Humble Missions Backgrounds Feds Midnight Stamps Right Path Many Friends Destitute Food Stamps

Author:Debi Mazar

“I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.”

Games Football Grew Grew Up Moved Nfl Tennis Nba Jam Moved On Madden

Author:Chris Paul

“I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.”

Fantasy Novel Grew Horror Grew Up Genre Sci Fi Spy Thrillers Fantasy Novels

Author:Benjamin Percy

“I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.”

Grew Grew Up Inspired Chaplin Busters

Author:Navid Negahban

“I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.”

Culture Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Shady Backstreet

Author:Eminem

“I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.”

Remember Seeing Grew Grew Up Sick Fishes Lakes Swimming Floating Explosions Michigan Filth Scum Tumors Seagull

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“I grew up on M*A*S*H and All In The Family and Cheers. And then around this time, this would have been '95, '96, I was so into Friends and Mad About You, the idea of being on a sitcom became a very real thing that I wanted. It was not so much a relief. It was really exciting. It's an amazing thing to be in front of an audience.”

Has Beens Ideas Real Wanted Audience Fronts Grew Grew Up Exciting Mad Relief Cheer Real Things Amazing Things Sitcom

Author:Eric McCormack

“I grew up on magical stories that had me looking around corners for something magical for years. But this isn't just saying a spell or waving a wand. There isn't one evil person leading an army, but a whole other world that wants to invade us with other beings from other realms. And there are only six mages, not an entire hidden subculture to turn to. It just hasn't been what I imagined and I suck at it." –Alex Adams”

Fear Honesty

Author:J.M. Briggs

Source: The Iron Realm

“I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.”

World Grew Grew Up Pops Movie Sets

Author:Scott Eastwood

“I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.”

Happens Grew Grew Up Storytelling Movie Sets

Author:Scott Eastwood

“I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.”

Environment Grew Comfortable Grew Up Insane Circus Movie Sets

Author:Jason Reitman

“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.”

Sometimes School Found Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up High School Let Me Surprise Familiar Auditions Movie Sets

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.”

Kind Kids Saws Grew Grew Up Gun Naked Airplane

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!”

Knows Years Littles Grew Lessons Grew Up Singing Years Ago Indignant

Author:Marisa Tomei

“I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.”

Ifs Years Gone Dying Huge Grew Grew Up Forgiving Plates Sitcom Dvds Never Forgive Bummed Out

Author:Dan Harmon

“I grew up on Nintendo. Mario was my best friend. I can't wait to get inside and play Nintendo GameCube.”

I Can Play Waiting Grew Grew Up My Best Friend Mario Nintendo Super Mario

Author:Mandy Moore

“I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.”

Wells Sports Team Grew Grew Up Clubs Soccer Sports Team

Author:Ian Astbury

“I grew up on radio, not TV.”

Tvs Grew Grew Up Radio

Author:David Lee Roth

“I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.”

House Natural Growing Up Moved Rap Rhythm

Author:Nomi Ruiz

“I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.”

Hands Grew Grew Up Library Second Hand Bookshops

Author:Charles Stross

“I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.”

Mother Grew Grew Up Shane Mother Love

Author:Peter Sohn

“I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.”

Littles Soul Grew Grew Up Dancing Creeps Music Soul

Author:Kim Basinger

“I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?”

People Feels Book Happens America Reading Grew Kings Grew Up Happenings Towns Nostalgia Worldly Small Town Demonic

Author:Alexander Koch

“I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.”

Shows Grew Grew Up Survival

Author:Bear Grylls

“I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.”

Knows Stage Grew Grew Up

Author:Haley Pullos

“I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.”

School Guy Car Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Teenager Grades Closest Motorcycle Grades In School Closest Friends

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.”

Inspirational Mean Play Funny Sports Sides Mistake Watches Grew Grew Up Exciting Pressure Beach Opponents Volleyball

Author:Holly McPeak

“I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean.”

Sun Grew Ocean Grew Up Wake Up Luxury Beach

Author:Gemma Ward

“I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.”

Dream Able Grew Grew Up Horse Beach California Southern Sailing Surfing Southern California Sailing And Love

Author:Bo Derek

“I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.”

Ifs Kind Three Found Pieces Grew Grew Up Tiny Spots Beach Decent Fabric

Author:Bo Derek

“I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.”

Firsts Wells Shows Saws Grew Grew Up Ultimate Bones Video Skateboarding

Author:Mike Vallely

“I grew up on the border and though I left I have brought it with me wherever I've gone.”

America Poetry Culture United States Poem Usa Mexico United States Of America Us Border

Author:Alberto Ríos

Source: Not Go Away Is My Name

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