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“Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?”

Ifs Children Parent Grew Grew Up Elders

Author:Barry Hannah

“Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!”

Ifs Humor Funny House Grew Grew Up Angel Delight Neon

Author:Dylan Moran

“I grew up on movies like Airplane! and The Naked Gun. You probably saw it more recently, but as a kid I grew up on them so I loved those kinds of movies.”

Kind Kids Saws Grew Grew Up Gun Naked Airplane

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“We all grew up so utterly vulnerable, enthralled by romantic love as we knew it. First of all, it was pounded into you every which way that you've got to get married and you've got to have babies. That you're not a natural woman if you don't. So that led to a lot of sitting by the telephone and waiting for a call. And that led you into a culture in which you were always in a subordinate position without realizing it; hamstrung, not able to take action. That was the most important thing: you were always waiting to be desired.”

“I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.”

Way Childhood Grew Grew Up England Nostalgia Britain Multicultural

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation.”

Parent Sides Cities New York Grew Grew Up Village New York City Equations Bohemian Nonconformist Greenwich Greenwich Village

Author:Anne Waldman

“I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with - the Stax music and early rhythm n' blues - I'm doing that. I'm actually getting out from behind my guitar and I'm singing.”

Way Soul Hours Behinds Grew Grew Up Singing Green Guitar Rhythm Als Memphis Old Soul

Author:Sheryl Crow

“I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.”

Art Three Race Football Brother Grew Grew Up Baseball Horse Boxing Martial Arts Bike Volleyball Rugby Three Brothers

Author:Barry Pepper

“When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.”

Looks Littles Humor Kids Wanted Funny Faces Hair Grew Grew Up Little Kid

Author:Noel Fielding

“When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.”

Looks Children Kids Young Left Common Grew Husband Married Grew Up Abandoned Getting Married Young Children Common Things

Author:Dacia Maraini

“For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate.”

I Can Imagine Grew Grew Up Defined Requirements Surfing

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Where I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.”

People Way Grew Ocean Grew Up Celebrate Surfing Love And Respect

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."”

Needs Made Home Would Be Funny Cities Comedy New York Grew Grew Up Yeah Addresses Holiday Pounds Drivers Rip Back Home Paranoid Cab Tokyo Inns Stomping Cab Drivers

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.”

Years States Opportunity Born United United States Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Grew Up Math Iran Get Involved Really Cool

Author:Anousheh Ansari

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

Character Jobs Guy Actors Sports Fans Grew Grew Up Baseball Strikes Relief Golfers Pitcher Participants Analogies Character Actors Avid

Author:Clint Howard

“I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Games Generations Tvs Grew Grew Up Profession Designer Animation Anime Godzilla

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.”

Want Children Said Mother Father Names Sports Enjoy Dangerous Car Grew Involved One Day Grew Up Drivers Racing Solo Competing Racing Driver Dangerous Sports

Author:Liz Halliday

“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.”

People Different Streets Grew Grew Up Cameras Inspired Video Different Things Riot Letterman Video Cameras Rockefeller Center

Author:Tom Green

“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

Thinking Made Bigs Differences Huge Keys Grew Majors Grew Up Subtle Metals Minors

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

Mean Ends School Parent Accepting Influence Brother Grew Grew Up Adults Accepted Educated Mature Concrete Brothers And Sisters Miraculous

Author:George Coyne

“Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Artist Song Grew Grew Up Tradition Pops Melody 80s Format

Author:Robyn

“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.”

Thinking Ideas Different Wanted Used Artist Fun Parent Company Perspective Grew Industry Grew Up Theater Independent Independence Raised Sweden

Author:Robyn

“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.”

Film Saws Students Grew Grew Up Hollywood England British London Manchester

Author:Mike Leigh

“Baltimore's often called the most northern Southern town. It has a distinct essence. It's definitely post-industrial, definitely Rust Belt, very working-class. I grew up outside of Washington, and I felt I was moving to a completely different place when I moved 30 miles north out of college.”

Different Moving Felt Class College Grew Grew Up Essence Towns Moved Miles Posts Southern Working Class Belts Different Place Rust Baltimore

Author:David Simon

“Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.”

White Teacher Grew Grew Up

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.”

Play Wanted Film Grew Grew Up Boxing Boxers Great Boxing

Author:Holt McCallany

“I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.”

Film Fans Huge Grew Horror Grew Up Universal 1930s

Author:Marco Pirroni

“I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.”

Kids Sports Brother Grew Dad Grew Up My Family My Dad My Brother Hockey Athletic Scholarship Younger Brother Athletic Scholarships

Author:Trevor McNevan

“I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.”

Whole Strong Interesting Party Grew Dad Republican Grew Up Areas Unions My Dad Whole Life Very Strong Typical Republican Party Jersey Loyalists

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.”

Ifs Looks Government Morning Streets Grew Grew Up Window England Wake Up Ass Bad Ass 80s Daleks

Author:Warren Ellis

“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”

“I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas”

School Grew Grew Up High School Vegas Las Vegas Colorado Denver After High School

Author:Paul Taylor

“I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.”

Firsts Children Dream Used Girl Grew Grew Up Flying Crush Swimming Pool Bully Playgrounds Diving Swimming Pool First Crush

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.”

Thinking Made Hours Laughing Serious Brother Tvs Grew Grew Up Inspired Movie Zero Marx Brothers

Author:David Zucker

“My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.”

Country Inspiration Mother Influence Grew Mom Grew Up Critics My Mom Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Mexican Pioneers Cuisine

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.”

Grew Grew Up Rivers Tiny Stations Beginners Indiana Kentucky Albany Louisville

Author:Bob Edwards

“It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.”

Hard Seems Film Levels Feet Grew Grew Up Studios Giants Blockbuster

Author:Chris Evans

“Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.”

Soul Grew Grew Up Adults My Soul Cleveland

Author:Marc Edwards

“I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.”

Water Grew Cold Mountain Grew Up Swim Glaciers Wyoming

Author:Matthew Fox

“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.”

Purpose Parent Saws Grew Industry Grew Up Doctors Hollywood California Surgeons Motion Pictures Peacefulness

Author:Spencer Johnson

“My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.”

Father Strong Five Grew Grew Up Died Father Died My Father Died Strong Family

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“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.”

Different Bigs Animal Rooms Class Pieces Grew Fit Grew Up Heavy Piano Expensive Furniture Living Room Upper Class Different Animals Rocking Out

Author:Ben Folds

“I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.”

Magic Grew Hero Grew Up Ice 80s Johnson My Hero Cubes

Author:Jonah Hill

“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.”

Men Children Guy President Grew Hero Degrees Authority Grew Up My Favorite Journalism Skepticism Dose My Hero Watergate

Author:Chris Carter

“I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.”

Enough Mother Powerful Grew Grew Up My Family Inspired Our Family Selfless Volunteer Very Powerful Powerful Words

Author:Eva Longoria

“I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.”

World Mother House Natural Religious Dog Taught Grew Lovers Grew Up Natural World Taught Us Nature Love Nature Lover

Author:Glenn Close

“I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.”

Mother Grew Grew Up Shane Mother Love

Author:Peter Sohn

“I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.”

Feels Looks Felt Growing Grew Grew Up Mirrors Planning Hopefully Planning Things

Author:Naomi Watts

“My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.”

Home Mother Culture Father Grew Late Grew Up Tradition Danish Copenhagen

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.”

Different Character Actors Grew Grew Up Fascinated Accents Caricatures Different Characters Dialect

Author:Sharlto Copley

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