“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.” BigsLightSchoolUsedNightBitsFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTrackTexasFridayFriday NightAntonioNight LightSan AntonioFriday Night Lights Author:Norah O'Donnell
“I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.” StillsBitsTelevisionTvsGrewGrew UpMediums Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.” PeopleFeelsBitsArmsGrewMountainOceanGrew UpLovelyFriendlyLengthIrelandUtah Author:Roma Downey
“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.” PeopleWantSaidIdeasBitsCarGrewGrew UpI RealizedCommerceCrashCar Crash Author:Cornelia Parker
“My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.” WritingTryingYearsLittlesStoriesProblemTurnsReadingFatherBitsFourSweetGrewTerribleLittle BitGrew UpSellsAwfulAgentsFour YearsOfferingPublishersInitialsWriting And ReadingVery Sweet Author:Anne Lamott
“I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.” PeopleFirstsLittlesPersonsMadeStillsCountryBitsRocksBrotherListeningGrewLittle BitGrew UpMovedMusicalGenreRock N RollConfusingChuckBerriesHybridEverly Brothers Author:Teddy Thompson
“I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.” FunBitsEnjoyWindGrewGrew UpGolf Author:Louis Oosthuizen
“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.” KnowsWantTryingLittlesGuyFunBitsLinesGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpEvolveDragFinish LineOlder Guys Author:Mike D'Antoni
“I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.” ThinkingGivingLooksLittlesSchoolBitsBornViewsPerspectiveGrewLittle BitGrew UpMy FamilyInternationalIsraelBackgroundsIranGraduatesTurkeysGraduate SchoolJewish Family Author:Nouriel Roubini
“I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.” PlayBitsFootballGrewGrew UpLonerTennessee Author:Justin Timberlake
“We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.” WellsBitsSeaGrewGrew UpTasksPhilosophicalPhilosopherStuckShipsConclusionEvolveLeapSchemesMariners Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.” LittlesCountryBitsLevelsCollegeGrewBasketballLittle BitGrew UpBaseballClubsSoccerCricketFanatics Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.” ThinkingWorldProblemFoundSocialBitsRealizingTeacherInfluencePositionGrewLuckyGrew UpImpactSocial Capital Author:Matt Damon