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“I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.”

Grew Grew Up California Berkeley Oakland

Author:G-Eazy

“I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.”

Wanted Artist White Audience Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Hip Hop Artist

Author:G-Eazy

“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

Author:Patti Davis

“I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”

Parent Saws Grew Couple Grew Up Understood Eras Holiday Uncles Aunt Aunts And Uncles

Author:Patti Davis

“I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.”

Art School Half Grew Mom Grew Up High School My Mom Finished Performing Australia Performing Arts

Author:Betty Who

“I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.”

Strong Emotion Failing Particular Grew Grew Up Argument Rage Scales Display Despised Strong Emotions

Author:Koren Zailckas

“A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.”

Book Reading Grew Grew Up Brutal Redwall

Author:Ned Vizzini

“I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.”

Art Ideas Film Fiction Theory Grew Grew Up Posts Heat Postmodern

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Wes Anderson grew up in Houston, and he and I talk about Manhattan in similar ways, as a kind of fantasy world.”

World Way Kind Fantasy Grew Grew Up Manhattan Houston Fantasy Worlds

Author:Noah Baumbach

“From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.”

Should Writing Book Ideas Age Consciousness Five Four Grew Six Grew Up Should Have Twenties Down And Settling Abandon Sooner Or Later True Nature Seventeen Settling Down

Book:A Collection of Essays

Source: A Collection of Essays

“Amanda [Bynes] and I are the same age so I grew up watching her and really looking up to her and for me, to see this path that's happening and to watch it, is kind of really affecting me in ways that I didn't think it would. It's weird to be in a situation where you can't help. I obviously don't know her at all but I want to bring her back and I want to make her happy and healthy for some reason and she's not there and we can't do anything to help so it kind of sucks. All we're doing is hurting it.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Reason Helping Age Hurt Situation Watches Path Grew Healthy Grew Up Happenings Amanda

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.”

“I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.”

Grew Grew Up Boring Complaining Bored Being Bored Boring Life

Author:Ina May Gaskin

“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.”

“I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.”

Ifs Knows School Black Born College Grew Grew Up South Including Scary Racist Crow Jim Crow

Author:Ezola B. Foster

“When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study the universe just like me - how could they not? This naiveté is what tells me that my interest was more a calling than a rational comparative assessment about what to be when I grew up.”

Ifs Way Want Kids Universe Interest Study Grew Calling Grew Up Like Me Rational Assessment

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”

Knows Feels Mind Looks Persons Said States Night Father White Taken Middle Grew Grew Up South Terrorism Usa Segregation Middle Of The Night Obeying Frame Of Mind

Author:Alice Walker

“I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.”

Firsts Shows Acting Television Grew Grew Up Cameras First Love Television Shows

Author:Seth Green

“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

“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.”

People Needs Feels Artist Evil Company Support Records Generations Grew Grew Up Music Is Buying Record Companies Younger Generation

Author:Bob Mould

“I've always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It's a self-expression thing; it's also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it's really positive. It's really joyful.”

People Thinking Self Body Wanted My Own Expression Grew Grew Up Claims Joyful Tattoo Self Expression Tattooed Really Positive

Author:Margaret Cho

“I just love people. I love this country. I am the American dream. I grew up by the airport with a dirt yard. Never in my life should I have been a success. So that's what I love about this country [USA], is you get out there and you have the opportunity and you work hard at it, and you can be a success.”

People Should Has Beens Country Hard Dream Opportunity Hard Work Grew Grew Up Usa American Dream Should I Dirt Yards Airports

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.”

Long Stills School Girl Given Sex Information Grew Grew Up Long Time Conservative Experiments Sixty

Author:Elton John

“I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.”

Girl Three Brother Grew Grew Up Preparation Three Brothers

Author:Michele Bachmann

“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.”

Play Bits Football Grew Grew Up Loner Tennessee

Author:Justin Timberlake

“I grew up in Baltimore which is a one of the biggest drug cities. I've seen a lot of drugs... so it was always around me, but I never really indulged in those type of activities. I never used drugs in my life and I was blessed enough with the wisdom and the strength to move forward.”

Enough Moving Used Cities Grew Type Drug Activity Grew Up Blessed Moving Forward Baltimore

Author:Mario

“God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.”

Men Mother Family Grew Grew Up Forgiving God Forgives

Author:Brendan Behan

“My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.”

Years Age Father Education Grew Six Grew Up

Book:The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.”

People Born Grew Mets Grew Up Crowds

Author:Carolyn Wells

“I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.”

“All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.”

World Different War Age Grew Grew Up War Of The Worlds Immigrants World War Ii World War I

Author:Margaret Mead

“We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.”

Way Light Eye Behinds Music Generations Movement Grew Grew Up Musician Intellectual Raised Flash My Generation Bulbs Light Bulb Bops

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.”

Hard Car Grew Grew Up Guitar Piano Fixed Cotton Mules

Author:Pinetop Perkins

“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.”

People Knows Trying Stills Whole Care Kids Turns Grows Process Parent Effort Growing Up Grew Healthy Skills Normal Grew Up Tolerance Despite Awful Helpful Strongest Imperfect Psychotic

Author:Frank Pittman

“It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.”

Reason Girl Given Gone Media Grew Grew Up Trailers Bad Girl

Author:Tonya Harding

“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”

“When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.”

Ifs Stories Girl Hurt Wife Feet Dangerous Grew Grew Up Adults Independence Slave Bounds China Rage Chinese Heroines

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.”

Wanted Grew Grew Up Walt

Author:Keith Haring

“I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.”

Kids Leader Trouble Grew Grew Up Communist Anecdotes Communist Leaders

Author:Jan Koum

“I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.”

Way Art Artist Grew Grew Up Museums Privileged Art And Artists

Author:Thelma Golden

“I was born in Mexico, I grew up in Mexico, and along the way, I learned to love Mexico. I think anyone who has stepped foot on this land - not to mention all Mexican people - will agree that its not difficult to love Mexico.”

People Thinking Way Difficult Born Feet Land Grew Grew Up Agree Mexico Mexican

Author:Emiliano Salinas

“As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.”

Way Wanted Mother Reading Five Grew Involved Grew Up Hundred Dollars Cynical Vague Twists Enthusiastic Charlatans

Book:Green Darkness

Source: Green Darkness

“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.”

Wells Bits Sea Grew Grew Up Tasks Philosophical Philosopher Stuck Ships Conclusion Evolve Leap Schemes Mariners

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“I have to admit, I never watch television; once in a while I'll see things, but I grew up without it. I had a father who said, 'I hate television'; it came into being when he was a kid, and he didn't have it, so he didn't think I needed it.”

Thinking Said Kids Hate Father Watches Television Grew Needed Grew Up I Hate

Author:Robert Knepper

“I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.”

Kind Boys Grew Grew Up My Family Blind Folks Heavy Stores Traditional California Diets Cornerstones Folk Music American Music

Author:Ben Harper

“I grew up in predominantly black neighborhoods and went to predominantly black schools. And hip-hop is what I grew up listening to in my teenage years. Basically I'm just being myself.”

Years School Black Listening Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Hips Hops Neighborhood Just Being Teenage Being Myself Teenage Years

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.”

Thinking Knows Kind Guy Nice Brother Grew Dad Offers Grew Up My Dad Get Up Seats Bus Polite Courtesy Nice Things Old Lady Courteous Younger Brother

Author:Paul McCartney

“I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.”

Way Years Different School Jobs Artist Passion Creativity Brother Grew Mom Couple Grew Up Moved My Mom Backgrounds My Brother Visuals Hippie Being An Artist

Author:Jared Leto

“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.”

People Ifs Feels Seems Crazy Grew Normal Grew Up Behave Outsiders Weirdo

Author:Young Jean Lee

“Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.”

Thinking Country Guy Actors Sex Serious Grew Grew Up Expectations Towns Various Juliet Having Sex

Author:Michael Ian Black

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