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Author:Gary Jarman

“When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.”

Shows Stuff Growing Up Growing My Favorite Mary Lear

Author:Ryan Murphy

“When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.”

Firsts Home Wanted School Success Left Growing Up Teacher Growing Teaching Minutes Mom Balance My Mom Educated Grades Coming Home Balanced Back To Work

Author:Martha Stewart

“When I was growing up, my mother enrolled me into the same classes as my brother so I learned karate, kung fu, and swimming. She also took us fishing, skateboarding, and to martial arts films. Needless to say, my mom was and still is cool. - Strong by Kailin Gow”

Strong Women Kailin Gow Mothers And Daughters Mothers And Sons Boys And Girls Cool Mom Strong Mothers

Author:Kailin Gow

“When I was growing up skateboarding, a bunch of friends and I went to this thrift store and as we were leaving I jumped up and passed gas in my friend's face. I turned around and it wasn't my friend, it was this nice old lady who was just walking out of the store. That was probably one of the more awkward apologies I've had to make in my life.”

Faces Growing Up Nice Growing Walking My Friends Leaving Stores Bunch Gas Apology Awkward Old Lady Thrift Skateboarding Walking Out

Author:Mark Hoppus

“When I was growing up, the kids would always say to me "Mr. McGee, Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." It was a famous quote from the Hulk.”

Kids Growing Up Angry Like Me Don T Famous Quote Mr Hulk Mcgee Wouldn T

Author:Steven Magee

“When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript.”

World Looks Book Mother Growing Up Growing Look Up Addresses Far Away Publishing Publishers Manuscripts

Author:Kiran Desai

“When I was growing up, the taste of pancakes meant the kind that my great-uncle made for me from Bisquick. If condensed cream of mushroom soup was the Great Assimilator, then this "instant" baking mix was the American Dream. With it, we could do anything. Biscuits, waffles, coffee cakes, muffins, dumplings, and the list continues to grow even now in a brightly lit test kitchen full of optimism. My great-uncle used Bisquick for only one purpose, which was to make pancakes, but he liked knowing that the possibilities, the sweet and the savory, were all in that cheery yellow box. Baby Harper wasn't a fat man, but he ate like a fat man. His idea of an afternoon snack was a stack of pancakes, piled three high. After dancing together, Baby Harper and I would go into his kitchen, where he would make the dream happen. He ate his pancakes with butter and Log Cabin syrup, and I ate my one pancake plain, each bite a fluffy amalgam of dried milk and vanillin. A chemical stand-in for vanilla extract, vanillin was the cheap perfume of all the instant, industrialized baked goods of my childhood. I recognized its signature note in all the cookies that DeAnne brought home from the supermarket: Nilla Wafers, Chips Ahoy!, Lorna Doones. I loved them all. They belonged, it seemed to me, to the same family, baked by the same faceless mother or grandmother in the back of our local Piggly Wiggly supermarket. The first time that I tasted pancakes made from scratch was in 1990, when Leo, a.k.a. the parsnip, made them for me. We had just begun dating, and homemade pancakes was the ace up his sleeve. He shook buttermilk. He melted butter. He grated lemon zest. There was even a spoonful of pure vanilla extract. I couldn't bring myself to call what he made for us "pancakes." There were no similarities between those delicate disks and what my great-uncle and I had shared so often in the middle of the afternoon.”

Baking Pancakes Vanilla Baked Goods From Scratch Vanillin

Author:Monique Truong

Source: Bitter in the Mouth

“When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.”

Wells Made Economy Growing Up Growing Products Rage Sony

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.”

Needs Humor Funny Used Realizing Growing Up Growing Drug Doctors Dealer Robins

Author:Robin Williams

“When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.”

Giving Soul Beautiful Stars Growing Up Growing Giving Up Vulnerable Your Soul Not Giving Up Movie Star Glamorous Very Beautiful

Author:Sally Kirkland

“When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!”

Running Together House Growing Up Five Growing Dad Sticks Smile My Dad Massive

Author:Louis Tomlinson

“When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.”

Country Bigs Film Growing Up Growing Drama Landscape Vastness American Film

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.”

Book Growing Up Growing Favourite Anna Favourite Book

Author:Paullina Simons

“When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.”

People May Joy Heaven Sound Growing Up Records Growing Albums Intimate Division Closest Echoes Intimate Relationships Closest Friends Joy Division

Author:Moby

“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Littles Might Wanted Social Grows Growing Up Environment Growing Perspective Fit Connected Outsiders Objectivity Social Environment

Author:Moby

“When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.”

Years Looks Real Age Wanted Film Growing Up Growing Theater Teenager Teenage

Author:Larry Clark

“When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.”

Used House Growing Up Growing Magic Claims Damage Aggressive Fascination Pins Needles Magic Powers

Author:Louise Bourgeois

Source: Parkett

“When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.”

People Feels Book Secret Growing Up Growing Mines Anxiety Lonely Worthy Cures Islands Sat Unhappiness Contemplating Solitary Adulthood Interiors Margins Outcast Feeling Lonely Passwords

Author:Jodie Foster

“When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.”

Growing Up Growing Simplicity My Favorite Drs Lyrical

Author:Tim Burton

“When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.”

Knows Years War Earth Parent Growing Up Teacher Growing Huge Beast Survived Parents And Teachers Formative Years Kraken

Author:Tom Hanks

“When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.”

Way Bigs Growing Up Growing Including Stigma

Author:Wayne Dyer

“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.”

People Thinking Way Play Use Language Common Growing Up Growing My Family India Typical Bombay Fooling Around

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.”

Black Born Half Growing Up Growing Identity Mom Forests Germany Parks Spokes Multiple Accents My Best Friend Mexican Integrated Colombia Vietnamese Multiple Identities

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.”

Growing Up Growing Green

Author:Deryck Whibley

“When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Growing Up Growing Share Listening Hip Hop Pops Hips Hops Pop Music Just Listen Subculture Hip Hop Music

Author:Jonas Carpignano

“When I was growing up, I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from, and I am only now beginning to get a sense that there is a middle ground at all.”

Two Felt Growing Up Growing Crazy Middle Expectations Two Things Middle Ground

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.”

Self Class Growing Up Growing Math Self Confidence

Author:Sergey Brin

“When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.”

Ifs Giving I Can Growing Up Growing Willing Giving Back Ghouls

Author:Darius Rucker

“When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.”

Book Romance Novel Growing Up Growing Horror My Sister Sister Romance Novel

Author:Dorothy Allison

“When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to do as Vietnamese people. But now that I am a parent, I go out of my way to make sure that my son goes to visit his grandparents and participates in customs like the Lunar New Year celebration.”

People Way Years Littles Parent Growing Up Growing Special Son My Way My Son Customs Celebration New Year Grandparent Vietnamese Special Things

Author:Nguyen Viet Thang

“When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a LOT of muscle in high school. When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.”

Knows Art Kids School Stars Stuff Growing Up Growing Crazy Healthy High School Ran Muscles Cheer All Stars

Author:Ashley Greene

“When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.”

Ifs Running Growing Up Saws Growing Streets Exercise Police Raised Quarters Royal New Orleans French Quarter

Author:Richard Simmons

“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.”

Play Kids Young Parent Growing Up Growing Auditions Boston Entertainers Downtown

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I was growing up, I didn't really know much about being popular or cliques or anything like that. In elementary school and middle school, you start to kind of realize what it's all about. There are cool kids, and then there's you, and you're just trying to figure out where you fit in.I learned a lot about acceptance and rejection,Those are the themes that you'll find spread throughout my music and weaved in throughout all of the lyrics. I really know what it's like to be accepted, and I also know what it's like to be rejected. And those are lessons I learned in Wyomissing.”

“When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern.”

Ifs Certain Roles Growing Up Growing Patterns

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”

America Remember Opportunity Growing Up Rich Growing Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Get Rich

Author:Martin Scorsese

“When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.”

Mother Father Growing Up Growing Becoming Actresses Spy Detectives Dentist Ballerina Homemaker Cowgirls

Author:Judy Blume

“When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.”

Artist Cities Growing Up Growing Land Rocks Dangerous New York Musician Clubs Hotel New York City Punk Punk Rock Velvet Reeds Chelsea Velvet Underground Cbgb

Author:Moby

“When I was growing up, I had a G.I. Joe doll, and now, to see a recreation of my character as an action figure ... it's strange. Because Worf doesn't really look like Michael Dorn without makeup, it's easier to separate myself from these recreations, but it's still strange, flattering, and weird all at the same time.”

Looks Stills Character Action Growing Up Growing Figures Strange Easier Makeup Dolls Recreation Flattering Without Makeup Action Figures

Author:Michael Dorn

“When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.”

Writing Wells Long Ideas Practice Growing Up Growing Long Time No Idea Journal Writing Life

Author:Dani Shapiro

“When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.”

Father Growing Up Growing Engineers Electrical Supermarkets Refrigerators

Author:Will Smith

“When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!”

Growing Up Growing Neighborhood Latino

Author:Meagan Good

“When I was growing up, I never expected to be able to afford everything I wanted. There are certain things I couldn't afford. I didn't run around blasting those companies or those things. I just decided I was gonna have to, if I really wanted it, find a way to pay for it. But that doesn't seem to be the attitude today. The attitude today is if you want it, you should have it. And if you can't afford it, it's not your fault. It's the provider's fault because they're corporations and they rip you off and they kill you.”

Running Today Attitude Growing Up Rip

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.”

Giving Together Growing Up Growing Heard Praying Give Me Stuck Bread This Day Daily Bread Our Daily Bread

Author:Bill Moyers

“When I was growing up, I really liked punk rock. I liked the sort of people that played really powerful music that was pretty unassuming otherwise - people who didn't dress weird or do much theatrics.”

People Powerful Growing Up Growing Rocks Dresses Punk Punk Rock Really Powerful Unassuming Powerful Music Theatrics

Author:Doug Martsch

“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”

People Said Stills States Wanted Stuff Chance Growing Up Growing Ambition Models Negative I Realized My Ambition

Author:Katie Price

“When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.”

Ifs Growing Up Successful Growing

Author:Russell Brand

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."”

People Helping Wanted Spirit Growing Up Growing Player Special College Mom Letters My Mom Coaches Rejection Someday Realistic Within You Something Special Rejection Letters

Author:Dick Vitale

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