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“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian community, and most of my friends had blonde hair and blue eyes. So I was always straightening my hair, wearing colored contacts, and I never tanned, if I could help it.”

Ifs Helping Eye Community Hair Grew Grew Up My Friends Blue Contact If I Could Blonde Blue Eyes Blonde Hair Caucasian

Author:Shay Mitchell

“My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.”

Father Grew Grew Up Italian Household Adopted

Author:Louis Gossett, Jr.

“I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.”

Grows Growing Up Grew Grew Up Lakes New Orleans Levees

Author:Bryan Batt

“I do find violence entertaining, but that doesn't make me a bad person. I grew up watching all these action films when I was a kid. My dad would bring back 'Rambo' and whatever, and we'd watch it together. It's not affected me in any way other than I just appreciate the entertainment value of violence on film.”

Way Persons Kids Action Together Film Values Watches Violence Grew Dad Grew Up Appreciate My Dad Entertainment Affected Entertaining Action Films Rambo

Author:Scott Adkins

“I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.”

Years Young Growing Up Growing New York Grew Grew Up Shy Village Stella Adler

Author:Steven Strait

“I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.”

Grew Grew Up Neighborhood

Author:William Devane

“I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. Just to be back in New York and, quite honestly, away from Hollywood has been an absolute thrill for me. I feel like I'm a real actor again.”

Feels Has Beens Real Actors New York Grew Grew Up Hollywood Absolutes Honestly Block Thrill

Author:Richard Schiff

“I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.”

Political Used Television Grew Grew Up Household Mum Mrs Thatcher

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“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

“I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because its not necessarily the easiest of lives.”

Children Young Acting Grew Grew Up Responsible Routes Discouraged

Author:Jack Davenport

“Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.”

Years Two Artist Felt Stupid Grew My Favorite Reactions Josh Favorite Artist

Author:Leo Fitzpatrick

“I grew up in New Jersey in the '80s. That means one thing: Big hair. ... I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show.”

Mean Shows Bigs One Thing Dog Hair Grew Grew Up Division 80s Jersey New Jersey My Boyfriend Prom Poodles Westminster Big Hair

Author:Jancee Dunn

“Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.”

People May Language Term Grew Cold Speech Winter Weather Gentleman Labour Obscure Admirable Salute No Patience I Have No Patience

Author:Dorothy Osborne

“I grew up in Seattle, but I always knew I wanted to leave.”

Wanted Grew Grew Up Seattle

Author:David Guterson

“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.”

Stills Father House Grew Grew Up South Los Angeles Still Life Compton

Author:Ice Cube

“I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.”

Want Girl Parent Grew Married Grew Up

Author:Camila Alves

“Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.”

Moving Parent Grew Proud Grew Up My Family Canada Scottish Scots

Author:Callum Keith Rennie

“I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.”

Bigs Christian Mother Church Grew Grew Up Sunday Exposure Choir Midwest

Author:Michael McMillian

“I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.”

Enough Strong Grew Grew Up Female Screens Bread Winner Fierce Opinionated

Author:Melonie Diaz

“I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, "I wanted my first son to be named Dallas."”

Thinking Firsts I Can Wanted Feet Son Grew Dad Grew Up Seven Thirty Texas Airports Port Arthur Dallas Houston

Author:Dallas Roberts

“The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.”

Grew Grew Up Percent Towns Bars Fifty Grades Weekend Bats Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah

Author:Vanessa Bayer

“I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.”

Light Mother Father House Lost Tree Grew Grew Up Singing Tiny Golden Dawn Piano Palestinian Showers Chords House Music Golden Light Tiny Houses

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.”

Ifs World Enough Play Sports Grew Grew Up Golf Good Enough Travel The World Playing Golf

Author:Taylor Cole

“I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.”

Film Actors Generations Tvs Grew Grew Up Watching Tv

Author:Lennie James

“I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.”

Littles Body Found Enjoy College Grew Balance Exercise Grew Up Dancing Musical Theatre Best Things Gym Rats Musical Theatre Gym Rats

Author:Christine Lakin

“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”

Feels Children Home Stage Grew Comfortable Grew Up Teenager

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.”

Years Sea Grew Grew Up British Uncomfortable San Francisco Columbia Fiji British Columbia Malibu

Author:Raymond Burr

“I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.”

Artist Feet Grew Grew Up South Village Sculptors Idyllic

Author:Donald Sinden

“I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.”

People Mean Language Wonderful Generations Communication Grew Grew Up Percent Fourth Deaf Accessibility Deafness Language And Communication Immediate Family

Author:Shoshannah Stern

“I always wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter when I grew up!”

Wanted Grew Grew Up Blue Peter Presenter

Author:Sophie Aldred

“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 on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.”

Sometimes School Found Parent Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up High School Let Me Surprise Familiar Auditions Movie Sets

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“The spring rains woke the dormant tillers, and bright green shoots sprang from the moist earth and rose like sleepers stretching after a long nap. As spring gave way to summer, the bright green stalks darkened, became tan, turned golden brown. The days grew long and hot. Thick towers of swirling black clouds brought rain, and the brown stems glistened in the perpetual twilight that dwelled beneath the canopy. The wheat rose and the ripening heads bent in the prairie wind, a rippling curtain, an endless, undulating sea that stretched to the horizon.”

Source: The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave

“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

“The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.”

People Government Psychology Conditions Grew Habit Soviet

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

“Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”

Important Self Problem Certain Practice Happened Grew Importance Patient Prime Inherent Here And There Polarity

Author:Carl Jung

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

Knows Hard Hard Work Grew Grew Up

Author:Pat Nixon

“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.”

Bigs Kids Stuff Grew Garden Yards Acres

Author:Randy Houser

“I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.”

School Three Brother Grew Grew Up High School Older Brother

Author:Ryan Stiles

“I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.”

Jesus Church Movement Grew Grew Up California San Francisco

Author:Sara Zarr

“Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.”

Wells Grew Grew Up Areas Earthquakes Bay Area

Author:Joe Morgan

“I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.”

Different Reading Poor Fiction Situation Growing Up Growing Fans Movement Huge Grew Kings Taste Grew Up Beats Various Sane Hunters Essays Non Fiction Piers Hunter's Thompson

Author:Corey Taylor

“I've still got the same friends that I grew up with, I still go to the same places that I used to go to when I was younger, and it's just a very special place to me. I'm still very proud to call Iowa home.”

Stills Home Used Special Grew Proud Grew Up Iowa Special Places

Author:Corey Taylor

“There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.”

Ifs Thinking House Parent Rocks Grew Grew Up Agree Bills Hips Rock N Roll Charlie Haley Groovy

Author:Elvis Costello

“Its tough growing up where I grew up. My family is very small and really tight. Just being around the neighborhood, my brothers were always around. I didnt want to be in any trouble because I knew my mom or brothers would find out. I didnt want to hurt their feelings. I just tried to do everything right.”

Want Feelings Hurt Growing Up Growing Trouble Brother Grew Mom Grew Up Tough My Family My Mom My Brother Neighborhood Just Being

Author:Derrick Rose

“How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.”

Ideas Economy Produce Grew Computer Phones Bunch Cells Cell Phone Amazing Things

Author:Tim Harford

“When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.”

Men Hate Taught Grew Prove Grew Up Okay South Jew Gods Will Inferiors Segregation Prove It

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.”

World Reading Grew Grew Up Plot Thought Provoking Provoking 80s

Author:Kim Harrison

“My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.”

Grew Grew Up Producers Grandfather My Grandfather Movie Sets

Author:Cassandra Clare

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