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“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Dacia Maraini

“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

“Like, a lot of people I know are wanting to get back to the Earth in some way and not raise their kids in this world of Apps and Internet all the time. I grew up on a river in New Jersey and I was in fantasy land. I could do anything.”

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Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I grew up hardcore. I learned to be more responsible - and fiscally responsible - you know, I just wanna be a kid again! Do a musical, have tons of time or something.”

Knows Kids Grew Grew Up Responsible Musical Hardcore

Author:Lee Daniels

“To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.”

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Author:Matthew Lillard

“I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.”

Kids Talking Grew Grew Up My Family And Love Peace And Love

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.”

Thinking Art Kids Culture Grew Grew Up Contemporary Compare Contemporary Art

Author:Takashi Murakami

“As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.”

Way Real Kids Fiction Careers Fans Grew Grew Up Science Fiction Monsters Science Fiction Movie

Author:Kevin Grevioux

“I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.”

Kids Parent Grew Grew Up Priorities Chinese

Author:Weili Dai

“I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.”

Kids Grew Grew Up Gun Shots Texas Hunted

Author:Stark Sands

“A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.”

Kids Grew Grew Up Scientist

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I was a very lucky kid, because I grew up affluent Santa Barbara, California. My experience as a child was probably so different from people I met later who grew up in the rural South, where many doors were closed to them.”

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Author:Floyd Norman

“I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.”

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Author:Floyd Norman

“I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.”

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Author:Allyson Felix

“I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.”

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Author:Pico Iyer

“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.”

People Children Different Kids School Stuff Community Acting Class New York College Grew Grew Up Training High School Theater Fortunate Really Great Great People

Author:Andrew Rannells

“I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.”

Knows Mind Important Kids Know How Player Grew Hero Grew Up Being A Hero

Author:Johnny Damon

“I feel somewhat privileged because I often feel very sorry for kids. I often feel very sorry for 20-year-olds and teens who grew up with the internet and have grown up completely connected because, for me, people like me know what it was to struggle, but it wasn't a struggle. It was great! It was fantastic. The thrill of the hunt.”

People Knows Feels Years Kids Struggle Grew Internet Grew Up Sorry Connected Like Me Fantastic Teens Privileged Thrill Hunts

Author:Justin Broadrick

“I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.”

Kids School Grew Grew Up Catholic Bunch Catholic School

Author:Brigid Brannagh

“I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.”

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Author:Vanilla Ice

“I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard and people are mean. And there's no president of England and I'm not British.”

People Ifs Mean Hard Kids Wanted Life Is President Acting Grew Grew Up England British Life Is Hard

Author:Riley Keough

“I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.”

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Author:Robert Stromberg

“I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.”

Stills Hands Kids Grew Grew Up Newspapers Ink Delivering

Author:Tom Verducci

“I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.”

Long War Kids Father Born Grew Grew Up Corners Nine Locals Farms

Author:Geoff Capes

“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.”

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Author:David Mamet

“The question is, 'how bad at sports were you as a kid?' I grew up near where they film Jersey Shore. If you weren't tan, muscular, and book-averse, you were a dork and a nerd and a geek and stuff. I remember being into Gary Larsen, Stephen Wright, Peter Sellers.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.”

Knows Way Kind Kids Grew Grew Up Drinking Affair My Way Insecure Love Affair Unhealthy

Author:Michael Botticelli

“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 speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music.”

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Author:Cristian Machado

“I grew up in the projects and I know how important it is for kids to have hope.”

Knows Important Kids Know How Grew Projects Grew Up Having Hope

Author:Carlos Mencia

“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.”

Want Kids Night Sides Growing Up Growing Grew Projects Grew Up Lonely Police Scared Every Night Sirens Lonely Nights

Author:LeBron James

“Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't know any actor who grew up with any particular privilege, so everyone wrestles with this. And I think, a lot of times, it's about being patient with your kids.”

Thinking Knows Kids Actors Growing Up Growing Particular Grew Grew Up My Friends Patient Privilege

Author:Matt Damon

“My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.”

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Author:Chris Tomlin

“I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.”

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Author:Nico Tortorella

“My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt.”

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Author:Shane Filan

“I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.”

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Author:Mike Judge

“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.”

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Author:Meghan Daum

“I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.”

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Author:Mac Barnett

“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school.”

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Author:St. Lucia

“I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.”

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Author:Katy Perry

“I grew up at my grandmother's house, and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid. I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens.”

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Author:Elton John

“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.”

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Author:Taryn Manning

“I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.”

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Author:Kieran Bew

“What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.”

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Author:Patricia Arquette

“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

“When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.”

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Author:Alex Hirsch

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