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“I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.”

Inspirational Littles Games Grew Dad Basketball Grew Up Baseball My Dad League Fanatics Little League

Author:Jonah Hill

“I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.”

Years Kind Two Boys Brother Grew Band Grew Up All Kinds Two Brothers Bagpipes

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I grew up with British rock.”

Rocks Grew Grew Up British

Author:Bryan Adams

“I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.”

Girl Brother Grew Grew Up Terrified

Author:Troian Bellisario

“I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.”

Men World Hard Courses Brother Grew Grew Up

Author:Allison Janney

“I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.”

Beautiful Parent Rooms Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Jazz Chaos Classical Music Living Room Saxophone Older Brother Beautiful Chaos

Author:Josephine de La Baume

“I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.”

Beautiful Stuff Cry Emotional Grew Scene Grew Up Dancer Ballet Classical Music Ballet Dancer Sonatas Ballet Class Vivaldi

Author:Diane Kruger

“I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.”

Speak Grew Grew Up Classical Music Electronic Music

Author:Varg Vikernes

“I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.”

Culture Grew Grew Up Flavor Jamaica Coconuts

Author:Ziggy Marley

“I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these mediums is just an opportunity I couldn't have even asked for. It's just pure luck, really.”

Book Action Opportunity Position Grew Pure Grew Up Luck Mediums Comic Comic Book Cartoon Action Movie

Author:Hoon Lee

“I grew up with donkeys, as well as horses, but I'm more interested in donkeys.”

Wells Grew Grew Up Horse Donkey

Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I grew up with family who liked to travel and sightsee, so I have this pressure inside me: If I'm in a city and I have enough free time, I'd better go to a museum. I try to see parks, go outside. Or else try to feel really normal like go to Target or a drugstore, or go see a movie.”

Ifs Feels Trying Enough Cities Grew Normal Grew Up Pressure Parks Target Museums Free Time

Author:Lisa Loeb

“I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.”

Brother Masculine

Author:Grimes

“I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.”

Ifs Book Shows Order Next Waiting Four Week Grew Grew Up Quarters Mail Envelopes The Next One

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.”

Long Enjoy Taken Grew Grew Up Long Time Frank

Author:Ali Hewson

“I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.”

Economic Television Grew Grew Up Models Driven Advertising Economic Models

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.”

People Sports Parent Class Middle Grew Grew Up Coaching Middle Class Entrepreneurial Input Great Parents Great Coaching

Author:Jerry Jones

“I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.”

Facts Car Grew Grew Up Gun Tools 16th Birthday

Author:Benjamin Percy

“I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.”

People Made Dream Games Simple Grew Hero Grew Up Bigger Raises Aspire

Author:Mike Vallely

“I grew up with him [Michael Jackson] and I've spent a lot of time at Neverland and nothing has ever happened with me in any way. You have to look at both sides. I do think it is very convenient that his album came out and all this stuff is happening. I definitely do think that's very convenient... It really hurts me to see that his whole life is ruined.”

Thinking Way Looks Whole Life Is Stuff Sides Hurt Happened Grew Grew Up Happenings Albums Whole Life Both Sides Ruined Convenient Hurt Me Neverland It Really Hurts

Author:Nicole Richie

“I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.”

Knows Years Kids Interesting Acting Grew Grew Up Horse Careful Partners Argentina Good Acting

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.”

America Choices Grew Grew Up Injustice Freedom Of Choice

Author:Zainab Salbi

“I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.”

School Young Actors Chance Wonderful Grew Involved Grew Up Productions Brilliant Wonderful Things Intrigued Juliet Young Actors Romeo Juliet

Author:Ed Westwick

“I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.”

My Own Grew Mom Grew Up Okay Independent My Mom Admire Independent Women Being Independent Woman

Author:Emma Roberts

“I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.”

People Feels Animal Grew Grew Up Empathy Related

Author:Neko Case

“I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.”

Thinking Self Self Esteem Hair Grew Grew Up Lows Red Glasses Esteem Low Self Esteem Red Hair

Author:Mark Gatiss

“I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.”

Believe Long Careers Grew Grew Up Long Time Aspect Thrust

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.”

Knows Father Car Grew Grew Up

Author:Danielle Steel

“I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.”

People Way Feels Made Grew Fame Grew Up Treats Relative Grandfather My Grandfather Being Famous

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I grew up with my great love, so I think maybe my heart took shape around his.”

Romantic

Author:Tarah DeWitt

Source: Left of Forever

“I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.”

World Writing Persons Play Inspiration This World Brother Listening Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Older Brother

Author:Tinchy Stryder

“I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.”

Father Natural Grew Grew Up Advantage Bounds Alternatives Stepfathers Brighton

Author:Natascha McElhone

“I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.”

People Important Kids Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Parenting Connected Lots Of Money No Money

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.”

People Class College Grew Grew Up No Money

Author:Frank Grillo

“I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.”

World States Dream Chance Grew Grew Up Blessed Lots Of Money Unfortunate Really Great Goodwill

Author:AnnaLynne McCord

“I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.”

Sometimes Remember Grew Grew Up Shoes

Author:Kesha

“I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.”

Young Felt Grew Needed Grew Up

Author:Alan Jackson

“I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.”

People Girl Grew Grew Up Staring Tall Awkward

Author:Matthew Emmons

“I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.”

Ideas Different Whole Stories Three Reading Parent Influence Childhood Grew Grew Up Storytelling Exposed Drs

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.”

Community Struggle Grew Grew Up Workers Protest March Demonstration Clans

Author:Hugh Masekela

“I grew up with reggae music.”

Grew Grew Up Reggae Reggae Music

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

Thinking Play School Sound Class Influence Rocks College Grew Grew Up Instruments Guitar Pops 80s Pop Music Guitar Playing Guitar Sound

Author:Christian Fennesz

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

People Philosophy Certain Belief Parent Millions Media Grew Grew Up Yeah Threat Cult Exposure Pragmatic Belief Systems Scientology

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.”

World Kids Father Hell Trouble Materials Grew Six Grew Up Died Latter Sentiments Twelve Better Place Surviving Good Will Make You Happy Material Things Father Died Tuberculosis Redirection

Author:Bernie Siegel

“I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four”

Ifs Children Four Grew Grew Up Our Children Fingers Ridiculous If I Could Sibling Snaps

Author:Kim Kardashian

“I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.”

“I grew up with so many different songs that the ones that are fun to play are the ones I want to do.”

Want Different Play Song Fun Grew Grew Up

Author:Bruno Mars

“I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.”

Knows Way Writing Kind Stories Know How Grew Grew Up Instinct Setting Storytelling Settings Default

Author:Khaled Hosseini

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