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“I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.”

Thinking Grows Growing Up Saws Mets Awful Realising Opera Composer Genes Adolescence

Author:John Adams

“I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.”

Kids School Hate Grows Creative Growing Up Environment Personality Towns Boring Bizarre

Author:Rob Zombie

“I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.”

Home Grows Watches Growing Up Tvs Hollywood Magazines

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did.”

Grows Growing Up Environment Mom Type Pops

Author:Lucinda Williams

“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.”

Mother Artist Grows Growing Up Painting Naked Household Sculpture Taboo Nudity

Author:Ingrid Michaelson

“I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.”

Home Care Age Past Certain House Grows Growing Up Moved Grandmother My Grandmother Upbringing

Author:Sky Ferreira

“I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.”

Jesus Names Grows Church Existence Growing Up Concepts Teeth Fairy Santa Santa Claus Tooth Fairy

Author:Paula White

“I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.”

Play Christian Values Fun Grows Church Moral Growing Up Ice Parks Collections Sunday Household Cream Ice Cream Skates Had Fun Good Moral Church On Sunday Good Values

Author:Yolanda Adams

“I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.”

Certain Grows Growing Up Growing Aspect East Texas Mentality Coast East Coast

Author:Debby Ryan

“I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.”

Matter Facts Grows Growing Up Grew Ocean Grew Up Desert Pleasant Fishing Contrast Matter Of Fact

Author:George W. Bush

“I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.”

Home Grows Growing Up Wonderful Safe Typical Wonderful Places

Author:Chris Isaak

“I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.”

Grows Growing Up Folks Acres Folk Music Porch Cabins Paws Mules Banjos Plowing

Author:Ketch Secor

“I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.”

Remember Actors Grows Growing Up

Author:Jodie Foster

“I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.”

Speak Grows Interesting Watches Growing Up Interesting Things Speaking Spanish

Author:Eva Longoria

“I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.”

Thinking Girl Grows Felt Growing Up Smart Being Smart

Author:Kerry Washington

“I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Motivation Passion Grows Challenges Space Growing Up Path Design Tvs Being Famous Small Spaces Decorators Redesign

Author:Nate Berkus

“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”

Thinking Art Film Grows Growing Up Afternoon Saturday Saturday Afternoon

Author:Sydney Pollack

“I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'”

Thinking Grows Growing Up Shoes Someday Maybe Someday

Author:Sheryl Swoopes

“I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.”

Wanted Actors Grows Sports Growing Up Trainers Instructors Aerobics

Author:Eva Longoria

“I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.”

Grows Growing Up Tvs

Author:Diane Kruger

“I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.”

Inspirational Stories Film Grows Growing Up Dance Crucial Ukrainian American Music

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I didn't grow up with [Buckminster Fuller]. I never met him. I was once close to meeting him as a child at a ski resort one summer. He died in 1983. Only in 1999 or so, 2000, when I was working as an editor at San Francisco Magazine, did I really come back around to that name because Stanford University had just acquired the archive.”

Children Names Grows Growing Up Mets Summer Died Meetings University Magazines Editors Resorts San Francisco Skis Archives Stanford Stanford University Buckminster Fuller

Author:Jonathon Keats

“I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.”

Mother Evil Grows Growing Up Clothes

Author:Charlize Theron

“I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.”

Mother Asks Grows Millions Growing Up Resources Rely

Author:Vanessa Lachey

“I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.”

Mother Grows Growing Up Records Cream Broadway Parliament Railroads Funk Bros

Author:Donny Osmond

“I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.”

World Kids Grows Wealth Class Growing Up Middle Privilege Middle Class Relative

Author:Matt Damon

“I didn't grow up with indie rock - I mean, I listened to bands that are considered indie rock, but I think that term is dead and uninteresting.”

Thinking Mean Grows Term Growing Up Rocks Band Indie Rock

Author:Justin Vernon

“I didn't grow up with money, but I grew up with a lot of space. All I did was surf. I was committed to the ocean. That's one thing about Australians; we have the capacity to embrace life.”

Grows Space Growing Up One Thing Grew Ocean Grew Up Capacity Embrace Committed Surf Embrace Life

Author:Simon Baker

“I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.”

Knows Grows Growing Up Dad My Dad Heritage

Author:Keiynan Lonsdale

“I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.”

Has Beens Important Play Grows Growing Up Dad My Dad Dna

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.”

Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Conservative Chicago Suburbs

Author:Tom Morello

“I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.”

Real Done Mother Left Grows Growing Up Issues Childhood Losing Latent Losing Her Unresolved Issues

Author:Billy Corgan

“I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.”

Firsts Wells Littles Fame Handle Resentful

Author:Paul Henderson

“I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.”

Years Would Be Next Comedy Office Next Day

Author:Rob Corddry

“I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.”

Ifs Knows Film Hitchcock

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50.”

Hate

Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.”

Eternity Amusement Dolls Barbie Barbie Dolls

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.”

Bigs Fats Greek Hilarious

Author:Pete Sampras

“I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind.”

Knows Men Trying Mind Wanted Together Childhood Achieve Particular Dad Blame My Dad Enormous Inability Deficit Family Life Blueprints Frame Of Mind

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.”

School Boys Crush Shy Lively

Author:Blake Lively

“I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.”

Way Kind Path Calling Deeper Life Experience Therapists

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.”

People Pain Childhood Forgiving Unhappy Let It Go Catharsis How To Forgive

Author:Tyler Perry

“I didn't have a chance to buy you anything," she said, then held both closed hands toward him. Uncurled her fingers. In each cupped palm a brown egg. He took them. They were cold. He thought it a tender, wonderful thing to do. She had given him something, the eggs, after all, only a symbol, but they had come from her hands as a gift. To him. It didn't matter that he'd bought them himself at the supermarket the day before. He imagined she understood him, that she had to love him to know that it was the outstreched hands, the giving, that mattered.”

Knows Giving Said Matter Hands Given Chance Wonderful Cold Understood Fingers Symbols Things To Do Brown Eggs Palms Wonderful Things Supermarkets

Author:Annie Proulx

“I didn't have a childhood.”

Childhood

Author:Pat Morita

“I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.”

Choices Growing Up Growing Insecure

Author:Shania Twain

“I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.”

Firsts Practice Clue Lap

Author:Joey Dunlop

“I didn't have a clue. I grew up Protestant in Connecticut at the Saugatuck Congregational Church. We didn't talk about the devil. That's Catholicism. And so, that was my safety net. And I always say, it's probably a good thing they didn't hire a Catholic child, who may have heard about the devil, the things that were in the closet. And no one wanted to discuss them.”

May Children Wanted Church Heard Grew Grew Up Devil Catholic Safety Good Things Catholicism Closets Clue Protestants Safety Net Connecticut

Author:Linda Blair

“I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.”

Coffee Cups Coffee Cup

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.”

Thinking Needs Hard Boys Commitment Down And Financial Gifted Pins

Author:Candice Bergen

“I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 29, and I thought it was because I'm in a wheelchair. And I realized that it's not that, it's because I listened to what the dismissive part of society was telling me and accepted it as truth. There was nothing that was keeping me from dating or falling in love other than the fact that I was scared of being rejected. And everybody has that fear. That's a universal thing.”

Facts Fall Universal Dating Falling In Love Scared Accepted I Realized Girlfriend Rejected Wheelchairs

Author:Zach Anner

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