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“I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I got involved in acting and took classes there. A manager who saw me at the agency I was at in Michigan wanted me to come out to L.A.”

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Author:Evan Peters

“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.”

Country Song Class Teaching Listening Grew Dad Grew Up Guitar My Dad Classic Keith Playing Guitar Haggard

Author:Jake Owen

“Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.”

Years Wells Whole Mother Class Childhood Grew Grew Up Dancer Ballet Dance Class

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.”

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Author:Billy Eichner

“I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.”

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Author:Questlove

“I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.”

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Author:Blake Lively

“I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.”

Knows Writing Class Grew Grew Up Working Class

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.”

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Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.”

People Class College Grew Grew Up No Money

Author:Frank Grillo

“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often somewhat narrow: our class, our race, our gender, where we grew up, what geography we were exposed to. The curiosity and wonderment of, "What it's like on your path?" - that's when you go into high alert.”

Born Race Class Path Grew Grew Up Curiosity Gender Acknowledge Exposed Geography

Author:Debra Granik

“I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.”

Knows Wanted Class Grew Mom Grew Up Cooking My Mom Kitchen Culinary

Author:Serena Williams

“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.”

People Home School Father Names Felt Class Grew Grew Up Picks Majority Actresses Minorities Outsiders Daddy Pick Me Pick Me Up

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.”

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Author:Larry Gagosian

“I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.”

Persons Girl Class Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Sarcastic Clown Skinny Very Sarcastic Sarcastic Person

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.”

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Author:Blake Bailey

“I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.”

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Author:Colum McCann

“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 grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.”

“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.”

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Author:David Simon

“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.”

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Author:Ben Folds

“There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I grew up on the south side of Chicago in a working class community. There were no miracles in my life, there's nothing miraculous about how I grew up, and I want people to know when they look at me, to be clear that they see what an investment in public education can look like.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.”

People Children Class Teacher Middle Grew Grew Up Middle Class Librarian Treasured

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.”

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Author:Andrew Rannells

“I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.”

People Together Class Middle Grew Grew Up Calm Tension Middle Class Working Class Suburbs

Author:JR

“When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.”

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Author:Naturi Naughton

“I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.”

Numbers Class Grew Grew Up Competition Studios Quitting I Quit Recitals

Author:Michael Angarano

“I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.”

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Author:John Cusack

“Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.”

“I was the kid in the class who was looking for the angles to question things or make wise-ass remarks, not knowing enough to be afraid of being myself or showing intelligence. But I wasn't the only kid like that in my classes because of where I grew up. I'm really thankful I grew up in a town where there were a lot of other mutant kids. I'm from Boulder, Colorado, which went through a lot of dramatic changes when I was growing up.”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.”

Thinking Persons Made Moving Song White Class Middle Grew Grew Up Commitment Privilege Nostalgia Despite Relate Middle Class Ache Keep Moving Upper Middle Class

Author:Erin McKeown

“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.”

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Author:Mariana Klaveno

“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

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Author:Christian Fennesz

“I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.”

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Author:William Monahan

“When I grew up in Tanzania, I went to school with kids who were blind and deaf, and we were all in one class. There wasn't a different class or teacher for them, so they didn't learn anything. I'm hoping to organize a school to train teachers to help children with disabilities. It's my future goal. I want to move back to Tanzania and do that eventually.”

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Author:Herieth Paul

“Mexico City is very different now than when I grew up, but I was in the streets all the time - though I was born to a middle-class neighborhood where there weren't a lot of gangs and things. I was always comfortable.”

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Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or middle school, and we told kids that they could be cool when they grew up even if they didn't do drugs.”

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Author:Ilana Glazer

“I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.”

Firsts Class Study College Grew Grew Up Feminist

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.”

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Author:Mariana Klaveno

“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.”

“I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.”

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Author:Miles Teller

“I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.”

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Author:Jerry Jones

“I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.”

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Author:Jillian Hervey

“[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.”

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