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“I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.”

Tree Grew Grew Up Christmas Christmas Tree

“I grew up with a dad who hated television, so we had to sneak television. It got ingrained in my head to never follow a show that religiously.”

Shows Television Grew Dad Grew Up Hated Sneak

Author:Robert Knepper

“I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.”

Belief Sides Grew Grew Up Angel Troops Our Troops

Author:Jane Fonda

“I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.”

Littles Grew Grew Up Homeless

Author:Misha Collins

“I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.”

Firsts Remember Mother Courses House Fashion Grew Grew Up Obsessed Older Sister Jumpsuits

Author:Nina Garcia

“I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.”

Jobs Speak Understanding Position Grew Mom Grew Up Fairs Privilege Feminist Relative

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.”

Grew Grew Up Gun Glue

Author:Alexis Stewart

“I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.”

Thinking Values Individual Grew Grew Up Strict Free Thinking

Author:Justin Vernon

“I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.”

Grew Grew Up Insecurity

Author:LeCrae

“I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.”

World Mother House Natural Religious Dog Taught Grew Lovers Grew Up Natural World Taught Us Nature Love Nature Lover

Author:Glenn Close

“I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.”

Thinking Looks Body Perfect Issues Television Mines Grew Grew Up Weight Body Image Orbs

Author:Ronda Rousey

“I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.”

Boys Grew Grew Up Testosterone

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I grew up with a lot of brothers and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.”

Important Brother Grew Grew Up Sisterhood

Author:Mickalene Thomas

“I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.”

Way Heard Brother Grew Grew Up Males My Way Worms Cousin

Author:Liz Phair

“I grew up with a lot of cats like that and they always were so surprising, magnetic, and electrifying. You can't be with them too long because they burn you out but the energy, the impulsivity, and the freedom connecting them to their animal energy is just so powerful to watch. It's dangerous to live like that but it's riveting to watch.”

Long Energy Animal Powerful Watches Dangerous Grew Grew Up Cat Surprising Connecting Magnetic

Author:John Leguizamo

“I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy. I notice when I meet other friends of mine that were raised Christian sometimes we have similar model of sensitivity, whether to our advantage or disadvantage.”

Sometimes Christian Compassion Mines Grew Grew Up Models Empathy Advantage Raised Sensitivity Disadvantages Compassion And Empathy

Author:Weyes Blood

“I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.”

Way Needs Care Grew Conversation Grew Up Tables Patient Dinner Health Care Inadequate Dinner Table

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.”

Darkness Grew Grew Up Essence Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Rupert Sanders

“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.”

Kids Film House Nice New York Huge Grew Grew Up Hollywood Impression Flats Farms Cowboy Cozy Hollywood Films

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.”

Has Beens Ideas Whole Interest Mines Grew Grew Up Revelations Lifelong

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.”

School Spirituality Grew Mom Dad Conversation Grew Up Catholic My Dad My Mom Organized Organized Religion Comparative Religion Catholic School

Author:Patricia Arquette

“I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.”

Looks Persons Book Mother Saws Grew Grew Up

Author:Jennifer Saunders

“I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.”

Grew Computer Grew Up Draws Tools Increase Drawing Usual Accurate Precise Pencils

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.”

School Simple Taught Grew Band Grew Up High School Rhythm Piano Chords Aunt

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.”

Real Wonderful Grew Grew Up Doctors Patient Appreciation Noble Profession Intimate Noble Profession

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.”

World Feels Seems Kids Used House Born Grew Right Now Grew Up Phones Complicated Rotary

Author:Dan Mangan

“I grew up with a sense of tolerance. I don't know that there was any talk about gender differences. It was respect for people. So when I became a professional and saw that there were a lot of differences in the sense of how people lived their lives, I became respectful of their territory, of their thoughts and their ideas, and it was never a problem for me to feel that this is my sister, this is my brother.”

People Knows Feels Ideas Problem Differences Saws Brother Grew Grew Up Gender Tolerance My Brother Territory My Sister Respectful Gender Differences

Author:David C. Driskell

“I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants, put herself through college to get a degree to get a better job. Because we were broke, I then had to go to a state school. I went to Temple University, and had to get loans. So I grew up in a world where I saw the government helping individuals pull themselves up, and saw it work very successfully.”

“I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.”

Powerful Influence Grew Mom Grew Up

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I never felt like I got it quite right. I was always on the verge of being exposed as unmanly, and I had no idea how to avoid it. Failing at boy-ness was an unforgivable sin, so my only hope was to not be noticed. Each new encounter with another human being could be the one where I slip up and have my cover blown, and be punished, possibly with violence. [footnote: It was generally agreed that, even if you didn't approve of violence, effeminate boys were "just asking to get beat up," and bore at least some of the responsiblity when it happened.”

Transgender Issues Transgender Women

Author:Amy Schneider

Source: In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

“I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.”

Bigs House Five Streets Grew Six Grew Up Aunt Extended Family

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.”

Language Violence Grew Comfortable Grew Up Familiar Temper

Author:Greg Bryk

“I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.”

Strong Grew Grew Up Very Strong Accents Irish Accent

Author:Dolores O'Riordan

“I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.”

People Way Reality Strong Grew Perception Grew Up Division Very Strong

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.”

I Can Brother Grew Grew Up Younger Brother Rowdy Young Brother

Author:Sarah Wynter

“I grew up with absolutely no religion at all, and it was probably one of the best things that happened to me. I didn't have to unlearn anything.”

Life Mind Wisdom Religion Freedom Thoughts Beliefs Louise Hay

Author:Louise Hay

“I grew up with action movies in my head.”

Action Grew Grew Up Action Movie

Author:Christian Kane

“I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.”

Years Together Three Grew Band Grew Up Als Three Years

Author:George Duke

“I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!”

House Stuff Walks Boys Grew Grew Up My Family

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.”

Heart Kind Country Artist Grew My Heart Grew Up Music Is Guitar All Kinds Guitar Playing

Author:Bryan White

“I grew up with all kinds of people.”

People Kind Grew Grew Up All Kinds Diesel

Author:Vin Diesel

“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.”

Long Mother Strong Lines Inspiring Grew Grew Up Very Strong Strong Women Mothers Day Long Lines Matriarchs

Author:Erykah Badu

“I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.”

Want Giving Years Made Two School Grew Speech Grew Up Tired Horrible Awful Therapy Reports Two Years Terrified Retreat I'm Tired Few Friends Speech Therapy

Author:Tim Gunn

“I grew up with an ambition and determination without which I would have been a good deal happier. I thought a lot and developed the faraway look of a dreamer, for it was always the distant heights that fascinated me and drew me to them in spirit. I was not sure what could be accomplished with tenacity and little else, but the target was set high and each rebuff only saw me more determined to see at least one major dream to its fulfillment.”

Dreams Determination

Author:Earl Denman

Source: Alone to Everest

“I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.”

Artist Father Parent Example Grew Grew Up Artistic

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.”

“I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.”

People Ifs Men Feelings Hands Bits White Grew Grew Up All Things Response Affair Currents Boxing Eastern Pencils Impatience Love Affair Pajamas

Author:Hugh Laurie

“I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.”

Brother Grew Grew Up Older Brother

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.”

Real Fear Grew Grew Up Awe Apocalypse

Author:Gary Cole

“I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.”

Art Age Identity Grew Ten Grew Up Innocent Innocence

Author:John Lone

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