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“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Listening Grew Grew Up Roots Punk Emphasis

“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.”

Thinking Knows Play Wanted America Actors Middle Grew Grew Up My Family Princess Brides Princess Bride Middle America

Author:Missi Pyle

“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.”

Knows Children Made Poverty Media Grew Grew Up Neighborhood Deprived

Author:Ving Rhames

“Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.”

People Knows Grew Grew Up

Author:Alexander Siddig

“I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Kids Remember Grew Fit Grew Up Decided Boxes Credit Flying Handle Absurd Meals Monkeys Wizards Python Monty

Author:Gore Verbinski

“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.”

People Knows Shows Kids Grew Directors Normal Grew Up Insane Chicago Casting Show Business Manhattan Casting Directors

Author:Matt Walsh

“Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.”

Knows Men Kind Country Kids Guy Listening Grew Grew Up Pops Crossings Crossing Over R Kelly

Author:Austin Mahone

“I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.”

Knows Has Beens Running Given Path Trouble Grew Grew Up Humble Missions Backgrounds Feds Midnight Stamps Right Path Many Friends Destitute Food Stamps

Author:Debi Mazar

“I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.”

Ifs Knows Grew Grew Up Aspect Athlete Survivor

Author:Ethan Zohn

“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.”

People Knows Want Writing Two Different Used Girl Know How Grew Grew Up Letters Supportive Being Different

Author:Noureen DeWulf

“Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.”

Knows Wells War Stars Fans Grew Grew Up

Author:Rian Johnson

“I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.”

Knows Made School Water Simple Morning Grew Grew Up Rivers Towns Soccer Happy Life Electricity Small Town Bathing Fetch Playing Soccer Tap Water

Author:Ishmael Beah

“When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.”

“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".”

Knows Trying Voice Struggle Clear Position Grew Needed Grew Up Police Neighborhood Helpful Rough Police Brutality Brutality Philadelphia

Author:Will Smith

“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

“If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.”

Ifs Knows Love House Grew Grew Up Alternatives

Book:The Marriage Plot: A Novel

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Grows Fantasy Growing Up Grew Safe Grew Up Neighbor Valleys

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.”

Knows Kind Bigs School Faces Guy Levels Growing Up Growing College Grew Higher Grew Up Towns League Minors Small Town Higher Level School Districts

Author:Roy Oswalt

“I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.”

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.”

Knows Needs Years I Can Use Able Life Is Desire Girl Father Tree Childhood Car Grew Grew Up Cameras Boxes Obsessed Satisfying Persuasion Noticing Gadgets Treasured Motorbike Cool Girl

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.”

Knows Believe Wind Grew Grew Up Bird Questioning Introspective

Author:Jane Goodall

“I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup, clothes, shoes and other girly things around.”

Knows Hair Grew Clothes Grew Up Shoes Bunch Enjoyed Makeup Other Girl Girly

Author:Trina

“I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.”

Knows Trying Long Happens Film Speak Language Rooms Achieve Grew Scene Comfortable Grew Up Theater Response Come Up Genuine Contemporary Spontaneous Improvisation Ibsen

Author:Victor Garber

“You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.”

People Knows World Believe Children Shows Universe Actors Found Known Share Childhood Love You Grew Grew Up Comic Show Business Center Of The Universe

Author:Mel Brooks

“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Song Listening Grew Grew Up Beats Majority Glitter Gary Shuffle

Author:Martin Gore

“White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.”

Knows Trying Stills Hate Passion White Race Half Silence Quality Crime Grew Speech Grew Up Racism Claims Primaries Theme Topics Hate Crime Presumption Whiteness Otherness Hate Speech

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.”

Knows Wells Important Grew Development Grew Up Seven Diplomacy

Author:Ronan Farrow

“Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.”

Knows House Dangerous Grew Grew Up Drinking Alcohol Fragile Alcoholism Fragile Things

Author:Marian Engel

“I definitely grew up on a lot of American bands. I didn't really know that there were any decent Australian bands until I was around 20.”

Knows Grew Band Grew Up Decent Australian

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.”

Knows Way Writing Kind Stories Know How Grew Grew Up Instinct Setting Storytelling Settings Default

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“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 know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'”

Knows Done Facts Shows Kids Grew Grew Up Parody Later In Life

Author:Matt Groening

“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”

Thinking Knows Hands Kids Poor Grew Paper Clothes Grew Up Canada Toronto Forged Second Hand New Clothes Second Hand Clothes

Author:Paulo Costanzo

“Im from northern Virginia, but I grew up next to the West Virginia border, so it was hills and farmland. We had that sense of adventure you get from growing up around old farmhouses and lazy, rolling hills, you know?”

Knows Next Growing Up Growing Adventure Grew Grew Up West Hills Borders Lazy Rolling Virginia West Virginia Farmland Rolling Hills

Author:Hilarie Burton

“I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.”

Knows Feels Stills Grew Grew Up Eras Trust Me Don't Trust

Author:George Lucas

“I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.”

Knows I Can Culture Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Gamer

Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people Id meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.”

People Knows Kind Kids Remember Courses Waiting Journey Grew Grew Up Bus Fruition Amazing People

Author:Glen Hansard

“I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.”

Knows Men Play Bigs Used Fun Know How Grew Grew Up Having Fun Latin Salsa Had Fun

Author:Ryan Guzman

“I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.”

Knows Has Beens Country Guy Fighting Rights Dying Military Grew Exercise Grew Up Vote Soldier Other Countries Right To Vote

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I didnt know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.”

Knows Hard Hard Work Grew Grew Up

Author:Pat Nixon

“As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.”

Knows Want Grew Circumstances Grew Up Tough Spots Assistance

Author:Dean Heller

“I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.”

Thinking Knows Years Shows Sound Growth Growing Plans Grew Grew Up Cat Albums Fades Fourth

Author:Young Jeezy

“You know what's fun about basketball? It keeps evolving, and it keeps changing a little bit. And the older guys want to try to hold it back to how they grew up, and it's not the same. You've got to change with the times, and some of the guys you've got to drag across the finish line.”

Knows Want Trying Littles Guy Fun Bits Lines Grew Basketball Little Bit Grew Up Evolve Drag Finish Line Older Guys

Author:Mike D'Antoni

“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.”

Knows Firsts Bigs Morning Know How Grew Grew Up Cooking Block Cooks Meals Grandmother Sunday My Grandmother Refrigerators Harlem Sunday Morning Lard

Author:Richard Carmona

“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

“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

“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

“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

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