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“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.”

People Different Streets Grew Grew Up Cameras Inspired Video Different Things Riot Letterman Video Cameras Rockefeller Center

Author:Tom Green

“I think there is a very subtle shift from the metal I grew up on to Weezer. I think the big shift was from a minor key to a major key. That made a huge difference in how it was perceived.”

Thinking Made Bigs Differences Huge Keys Grew Majors Grew Up Subtle Metals Minors

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

Mean Ends School Parent Accepting Influence Brother Grew Grew Up Adults Accepted Educated Mature Concrete Brothers And Sisters Miraculous

Author:George Coyne

“Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Artist Song Grew Grew Up Tradition Pops Melody 80s Format

Author:Robyn

“My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.”

Thinking Ideas Different Wanted Used Artist Fun Parent Company Perspective Grew Industry Grew Up Theater Independent Independence Raised Sweden

Author:Robyn

“I grew up looking at... going to the movies a lot, as much as they'd let you. I grew up in Manchester in the north of England in the '40s and '50s. I saw a lot of movies. They were all Hollywood and British movies. I didn't see a film that wasn't in English until I was 17 when I went to London to be a student.”

Film Saws Students Grew Grew Up Hollywood England British London Manchester

Author:Mike Leigh

“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.”

Different Moving Felt Class College Grew Grew Up Essence Towns Moved Miles Posts Southern Working Class Belts Different Place Rust Baltimore

Author:David Simon

“Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.”

Source: The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright

“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.”

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.”

Men Mind Firsts Would Be Running Felt Animal Watches Clear Masters Grew Empires Heels Oppressed Apocalypse Persuasion Passed Away Martians

Book:H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

Source: H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

“Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.”

White Teacher Grew Grew Up

Author:Aziz Ansari

“I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.”

Play Wanted Film Grew Grew Up Boxing Boxers Great Boxing

Author:Holt McCallany

“I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.”

Film Fans Huge Grew Horror Grew Up Universal 1930s

Author:Marco Pirroni

“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

“I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.”

Ifs Knows Moments Wanted Young Speak Stars Class Careers Possibility Grew Crafts Movie Star Defining Defining Moments

Author:Columbus Short

“At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of a horrible name, so that's why. Otherwise, I was called Titchy because I was little. I was still only about 4ft something when I left school. I grew a foot under glass in my first year as a gardener. It's really quite amazing what sun and manure can do.”

Years Firsts Littles Stills School Names Left Bits Can Do Sun Feet Middle Grew Glasses Horrible Gardener Manure

Author:Alan Titchmarsh

“I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.”

Whole Strong Interesting Party Grew Dad Republican Grew Up Areas Unions My Dad Whole Life Very Strong Typical Republican Party Jersey Loyalists

Author:Anthony Scaramucci

“With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

“I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally put Daleks on the streets.”

Ifs Looks Government Morning Streets Grew Grew Up Window England Wake Up Ass Bad Ass 80s Daleks

Author:Warren Ellis

“On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.”

Life Particular Grew Shapes Garden Roots Experts Stem Leafs Gardener Specialists Caterpillars

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.”

Two Science Found Grew Accounts

Author:Charles Sprague Sargent

“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.”

“As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.”

Opportunity Money Power Our Lives Cutting Influence Grew Corruption Corners Temptation More Money Dishonesty Peddling Cutting Corners

Author:Steve Forbes

“She took a leap of faith and grew her wings on the way down.”

Way Inspiring Grew Wings Leap Leap Of Faith

Author:David Brinkley

“I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas”

School Grew Grew Up High School Vegas Las Vegas Colorado Denver After High School

Author:Paul Taylor

“Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.”

People Ideas Inspiration Sea Minutes Materials Communication Grew Civilization Raw Materials

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.”

Firsts Children Dream Used Girl Grew Grew Up Flying Crush Swimming Pool Bully Playgrounds Diving Swimming Pool First Crush

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“In 'Thor,' that was my own hair. I grew it out. But I have naturally curly, blonde hair, so I'll never look like that. By the time I got to 'The Avengers,' I had come off two other films, which required me to have it very short. So I dyed it again and it was long enough to use a part of my hairline.”

Looks Long Two Enough Use Film My Own Hair Grew Blonde Avengers Blonde Hair Long Blonde Hair

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.”

Thinking Made Hours Laughing Serious Brother Tvs Grew Grew Up Inspired Movie Zero Marx Brothers

Author:David Zucker

“I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.”

Giving Littles Hard Kids Taught Hard Work Grew Balance Give Me Structure Kitchen Good Place Incorrigible

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.”

Country Inspiration Mother Influence Grew Mom Grew Up Critics My Mom Kitchen Grandmother My Grandmother Mexican Pioneers Cuisine

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.”

Grew Grew Up Rivers Tiny Stations Beginners Indiana Kentucky Albany Louisville

Author:Bob Edwards

“It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.”

Hard Seems Film Levels Feet Grew Grew Up Studios Giants Blockbuster

Author:Chris Evans

“Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.”

Soul Grew Grew Up Adults My Soul Cleveland

Author:Marc Edwards

“I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.”

Water Grew Cold Mountain Grew Up Swim Glaciers Wyoming

Author:Matthew Fox

“The initial organisation, we called ourselves the Network Working Group, consisted of 6 to 10 people. We then quickly grew to 30 people and then to 50 people.”

People Groups Grew Initials Organisation

Author:Steve Crocker

“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.”

Purpose Parent Saws Grew Industry Grew Up Doctors Hollywood California Surgeons Motion Pictures Peacefulness

Author:Spencer Johnson

“The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.”

Source: It's too late to stop now: a rock and roll journal

“Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.”

Play Girl Player Grew Basketball Grades Basketball Player

Author:Eric Williams

“My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.”

Father Strong Five Grew Grew Up Died Father Died My Father Died Strong Family

Book:So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

Source: So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews

“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.”

Different Bigs Animal Rooms Class Pieces Grew Fit Grew Up Heavy Piano Expensive Furniture Living Room Upper Class Different Animals Rocking Out

Author:Ben Folds

“I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.”

Magic Grew Hero Grew Up Ice 80s Johnson My Hero Cubes

Author:Jonah Hill

“I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.”

Men Children Guy President Grew Hero Degrees Authority Grew Up My Favorite Journalism Skepticism Dose My Hero Watergate

Author:Chris Carter

“My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.”

Men Years Night White Hair Grew Grey

Author:Lord Byron

“Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.”

Two Together Morning Sweet Grew Rose Evening Rays Communion Drank Dew Spray Slender

Book:The select poetical works of James Montgomery

Source: The select poetical works of James Montgomery

“I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.”

Enough Mother Powerful Grew Grew Up My Family Inspired Our Family Selfless Volunteer Very Powerful Powerful Words

Author:Eva Longoria

“I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.”

World Mother House Natural Religious Dog Taught Grew Lovers Grew Up Natural World Taught Us Nature Love Nature Lover

Author:Glenn Close

“I grew up on Shane movie and my mother loves it and I've watched it hundreds of times.”

Mother Grew Grew Up Shane Mother Love

Author:Peter Sohn

“I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.”

Feels Looks Felt Growing Grew Grew Up Mirrors Planning Hopefully Planning Things

Author:Naomi Watts

“My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.”

Home Mother Culture Father Grew Late Grew Up Tradition Danish Copenhagen

Author:Scarlett Johansson