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“I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.”

Knows Young Used Guy Parent Grew Grew Up Meetings Insanity Take Me Aggressive Aggression Aa Meeting

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.”

Fall Grew Grew Up Rivers Towns Backgrounds Modest Massachusetts Portuguese Bakeries

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.”

Firsts States Grew Eating Grew Up Meat Vegetarian Sandwiches Pizza Eating Meat Bologna

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.”

Environment Grew Grew Up Progressive

Author:Alan Ball

“You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.”

Knows Age Grew Gay Grew Up Repressed

Author:Alan Ball

“I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.”

Home Grew Grew Up Household Lungs

Author:Frank Langella

“I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.”

Want Persons White New York Grew Grew Up Picks Dose Hail Cab Harlem

Author:Queen Latifah

“I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.”

People Ifs Men Feelings Hands Bits White Grew Grew Up All Things Response Affair Currents Boxing Eastern Pencils Impatience Love Affair Pajamas

Author:Hugh Laurie

“I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.”

Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Dinner Heat Kentucky

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.”

Wells Guy Grew Grew Up Cousin Firefighter My Cousin

Author:Denis Leary

“Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.”

Used Grew Basketball Grew Up Court Basketball Court

Author:Denis Leary

“I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.”

Thinking Way Problem Kids Natural Plans Figures Grew Authority Grew Up Yeah Angle Dna Identifying Authority Figures

Author:Denis Leary

“I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'”

Said Wanted School Used Player Grew Terrible Basketball Grew Up Court Hockey Hockey Player Basketball Court

Author:Denis Leary

“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”

People World Made War America Courses Grew Cold Grew Up War Of The Worlds Japan Vietnam World War Ii Protected Cold War Extensions Asia Vietnam War Korean Taiwan Korean War Good War

Author:Ang Lee

“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.”

Country Guy Knowing Grew Grew Up China Our Country Communist Bad Guys Communist China

Author:Ang Lee

“I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.”

Way Giving Believe Problem Order Grew One Day Conflict Grew Up Harmony Solve Eastern

Author:Ang Lee

“I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.”

Persons Girl Social Groups Hair Grew Grew Up Lipstick Other Girl Exchanging

Author:Annie Lennox

“There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.”

People Poetry Memories Poet Grew Grew Up Good Memories

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“The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.”

Country Crime Grew Grew Up Highest Rate London Crime Rates

Author:Leona Lewis

“I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.”

Looks Kind Stories School Christian Community Church Answers Groups Youth Grew Grew Up High School Radical Sunday Fellowship Freshman Sunday School Christian Community Bible Stories

Author:Jeremy Lin

“I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.”

Wanted Father Stage Grew Grew Up Actresses Playwright Manhattan

Author:Laura Linney

“I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.”

Sides Grew Grew Up East Manhattan East Side Upper East Side

Author:Laura Linney

“I grew up in a house with very few books.”

Book House Grew Grew Up

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.”

Listening Grew Mom Grew Up My Mom Motown Oldies

Author:Ryan Lochte

“I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.”

Want Bigs My Own Grew Grew Up Big Families

Author:Ryan Lochte

“Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.”

People World Mind Children Littles Might Jobs Grows Growing Up College Grew Married Grew Up Traditional Grandchildren Dallas

Author:Lisa Loeb

“I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.”

Thinking I Can Stories My Own Poor Rooms Grew Normal Grew Up Vans Alaska Suburbs

Author:Lisa Loeb

“I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.”

Used Father Grew Grew Up Gun Educated Shooting Target Target Shooting

Author:Eva Longoria

“I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.”

Grew Late Grew Up Silly Girlfriend Just Being Bedroom Clown Bronx Being Silly Your Girlfriend

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.”

Knows Way Grew Grew Up My Way Cooks Meat Kitchen Italian Rice Beans Italian American American Food

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.”

Knows Way Believe Kind America Certain Democracy Grew Grew Up Patriot San Francisco Ardent

Author:George Lucas

“I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.”

Knows Country Bigs Kids Middle Grew Grew Up Mythology Farms Iowa Big Families

Author:Kellan Lutz

“When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.”

Ends Feelings Four Brother Grew Grew Up Like Me Inadequate Four Brothers

Author:John Lydon

“I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.”

I Can Country Can Do Five Grew Proud Grew Up Percent Increase Clever Ads Eighty Country Life

Author:John Lydon

“I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.”

Grows Growing Up Listening Grew Grew Up

Author:David Lynch

“I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.”

Kind Used Grew Grew Up Gun Tough Neighborhood Kind Words

Author:David Mamet

“A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.”

People Want Believe Different Grew Lovers Fame Grew Up These Days Different Things Music Lover

Author:Shirley Manson

“Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.”

Feelings My Own Grew Grew Up Appearance Internals Devices Integrating Physical Attraction Physical Appearance

Author:Shirley Manson

“I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.”

Thinking World Years Mean I Can Used Artist Girl Grew Grew Up Clubs Used To Be Cracks

Author:Shirley Manson

“I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.”

People Children Memories Listening Grew Grew Up Knees Grandmother My Grandmother Old People Elders

Author:Hilary Mantel

“'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.”

Special Rocks Listening Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad

Author:Bruno Mars

“I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.”

Knows Two Stories Grew Grew Up Sticks Stairs

Author:Bruno Mars

“I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.”

Self Guy Grows Growing Up Self Esteem Grew Grew Up South Campaigns Esteem Torture New Orleans

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.”

Ifs Book Shows Order Next Waiting Four Week Grew Grew Up Quarters Mail Envelopes The Next One

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.”

Men Grew Grew Up Ice Grass Canada Skating Backyards

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.”

World Ideas Whole Film Stuff Grew Mom Dad Comfortable Grew Up Hollywood My Dad My Mom Upbringing Translators

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.”

“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.”

Kind Art Form Sports Figures Grew Dad Grew Up Towns My Dad Hockey Fulfilled Small Town Skating

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?”

People Ifs Knows Fun Poor Worry Grew Grew Up Let Me Stress Miserable Making Money Having Fun Like Something Makin Money Stress And Worry

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Age Grew Computer Grew Up Islands Neighborhood Technological Daylight

Author:Matthew McConaughey

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