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“It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.”

Thinking Would Be Grew Grew Up Professors

“I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.”

“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.”

Feels Made Class Modern Listening Grew Comfortable Grew Up Connections Dancer Ballet Tied Classical Music Drummer Music And Dance Ballet Class

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways.”

Way Ideas New York Grew Grew Up Performing Dancer

Author:Jillian Hervey

“As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.”

Different Wanted Modern Grew Type Grew Up Jazz Ballet

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.”

Want Giving Years Made Two School Grew Speech Grew Up Tired Horrible Awful Therapy Reports Two Years Terrified Retreat I'm Tired Few Friends Speech Therapy

Author:Tim Gunn

“I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.”

Writing Stills Song My Own Growing Ready Grew Studios Early 20s

Author:Mark Stoermer

“If you came to my house and said, "Well, here's the new Katy Perry record," I would give it a listen, but these records are constructed by producers in production houses with no human beings playing on them and it's interesting, but we grew up with human beings playing on records.”

Ifs Giving Humans Wells Said House Human Beings Interesting Records Grew Grew Up Productions Producers

Author:John Seagall

“I like all of the typical hard rock bands. I'm an AC/DC fanatic. I love ZZ Top, just about any Van Halen, any Judas Priest, the list goes on and on, most of the Iron Maiden stuff. Those are the big bands, but I got my feel from, I grew up on Mountain and Humble Pie. That kind of stuff is where I get my feel from.”

“I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.”

People Feelings Wanted Grew Grew Up Making People Happy Pleasers

Author:Rachele Brooke Smith

“I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.”

Bigs Grew Basketball Grew Up Obsessed

Author:Rachele Brooke Smith

“I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.”

I Can Actors Television Grew Grew Up

Author:Richard Sammel

“The only thing my mum could afford growing up was to be able to look after me and my brother so the only thing that I wanted when I grew up was to be able to look after my mum. So when I could, I bought her a house and then I got her a car as well and I got her a little air freshener to put in her car and on it, it said "life is a journey not a destination."”

Wells Looks Littles Said Able Wanted Life Is House Growing Up Growing Air Journey Car Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Destination Mum Life Is A Journey Said Life

Author:John Newman

“I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.”

Years Church Grew Grew Up Painful Expected Sunday Teenage Teenage Years Church On Sunday

Author:John Irving

“I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing research, I would write books that I would have liked to have read as a child. So whenever I write, I imagine myself, as a youth, reading my books, being thrilled by the incredible advances being made in physics and science.”

Writing Children Made Book Reading Imagine Youth Grew Grew Up Research Incredibles Physics Physicist Theoretical

Author:Michio Kaku

“I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.”

Feels Trying Faces Lying Sound Sides Like You Grew Grew Up Moved East Teenager Believable Harlem East Side

Author:Zoe Leonard

“I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.”

Wells Self Taught Grew Reader Lovers Grew Up Novelists Filmmaker Great Film Self Taught

Author:Curtis Hanson

“I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.”

Stories Wanted Memories Cities Childhood Grew Grew Up Los Angeles Childhood Memories

Author:Curtis Hanson

“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.”

Way Believe Wanted Fighting Achieve Perspective Grew Members Findings Grew Up Committed Minorities Outsiders Entrepreneurial Persecuted Achieving Success

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.”

Kind Mother Environment Modern Grew Grew Up Prejudice Grandfather Business Environment Modern Business

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.”

People Romance Grew Grew Up Nerd

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I grew up in Seattle, by the way, in the 70's, it was a fishing village. There were loggers and fishers and my dad had a sewer company and it wasn't the way Seattle is now. Culturally, it was very different back then.”

Way Different Company Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Fishing Village Seattle Sewers

Author:Rainn Wilson

“I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't think of myself as bringing to the table a lot of 'women's issues.' I don't feel the need to write about maternity. I grew up thinking that the talented people in comedy were hard-joke writers.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Writing Hard Used Forget Issues Comedy Grew Grew Up Jokes Tables Indian Maternity

Author:Mindy Kaling

“When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.”

Years Looks Player Football Grew Grew Up Years Ago Weight Football Player

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.”

Thinking World Grew Grew Up Garden Artistic

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Just physically, if you looked at the house that I grew up in, my mother created this greenhouse. And surrounded the entire property. And there was, like, trees and sculptures and like - it was, like, this crazy, like, secret garden space.”

Ifs Mother House Space Secret Tree Crazy Grew Grew Up Garden Property Sculpture Greenhouses Secret Garden

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.”

People Car Grew Grew Up South Los Angeles

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.”

Years Millions Seeing Products Grew Grew Up Stores Als Ambassadors

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“I had to learn how to trust the Lord. My faith muscles grew. Just like, you're exercising your muscles and they may be sore for a while, but they become stronger with exercise.”

May Lord Like You Grew Exercise Stronger Muscles

Author:Bill Bright

“I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was my job to speak up when things weren't fair.”

Jobs Speak Understanding Position Grew Mom Grew Up Fairs Privilege Feminist Relative

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.”

Grew Grew Up Practicals Farmers Scotland Fisherman

Author:Sam Heughan

“A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.”

Political Grew Grew Up Bent

Author:Patterson Hood

“I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.”

Home Felt Memories Plans Special Grew Grew Up Pastor Really Weird

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.”

Kids Film House Nice New York Huge Grew Grew Up Hollywood Impression Flats Farms Cowboy Cozy Hollywood Films

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I'm a fan of the mythos of Atlanta hip-hop, and it's something I grew up imagining. It was very interesting to get there and see the real version of this world and then reconcile the differences between what's presented as Atlanta hip-hop to the rest of the world and what the real, breathing version of it is.”

World Real Differences Interesting Fans This World Grew Grew Up Hip Hop Versions Hips Breathing Hops Very Interesting Reconcile Atlanta

Author:Hiro Murai

“I grew up an only child, so I was so much more adult. My eldest daughter is 10, and I was so much more of an adult than she is. She just doesn't care for the real world. She's not interested.”

World Children Real Care Grew Grew Up Daughter Adults Real World Not Interested Only Child Eldest Eldest Daughter

Author:Samantha Bee

“I get to go back and ride my horses with all the people that I grew up with because that's really fun for me.”

People Fun Grew Grew Up Horse

Author:Gigi Hadid

“I grew up as a horseback rider and a volleyball player so honestly when I got a gym membership in New York, I thought I was going to die.”

Dies Player New York Grew Grew Up Honestly Gym Riders Volleyball Membership Horseback Volleyball Player Horseback Riders

Author:Gigi Hadid

“I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.”

Persons I Can Past Remember Grew Grew Up Remembering The Past

Author:Martha Ronk

“I'm in California, so I know people who are natives who tell me there's lots of weather here, but it's not the same as being in Vermont. Since I grew up on the East Coast I miss that weather all the time. You'd think I'd get used to not having it, but I don't.”

People Thinking Knows Used Missing Grew Grew Up East Weather California Coast East Coast Vermont

Author:Martha Ronk

“I'm a small town boy from a place not too different from Farmville. I grew up with a corn field in my backyard. My grandfather had emigrated to this country when he was about my son's age. My mom and dad built everything that matters in a small town in southern Indiana. They built a family and a good name and a business, and they raised a family.”

Different Country Matter Age Names Boys Fields Son Grew Mom Dad Grew Up Built Towns Raised My Mom My Son Southern Grandfather Small Town Corn My Grandfather Backyards Indiana Mom And Dad

Author:Mike Pence

“I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.”

Parent Wonderful Grew Grew Up Catholic Fortunate Household Great Irish

Author:Tim Kaine

“I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.”

Littles Wanted Beautiful Girl Grew Grew Up Catholic Paint Beautiful Things

Author:Mary GrandPre

“I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.”

Fans Grew Grew Up Related Hockey Nhl

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.”

Cities Streets Grew Grew Up Baltimore

Author:Steve Clevenger

“I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.”

America Grew Proud Grew Up Areas Diverse

Author:Steve Clevenger

“I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.”

Ifs World Problem Mother Girl Grew Grew Up My Family Grandmother My Grandmother Aunt Oysters Unafraid Speaking Up

Author:Ava DuVernay

“I grew up amongst biologists.”

Grew Grew Up Biologist

Author:Margaret Atwood

“It was actually pretty cool to be in Pittsburgh for those four years. I moved into the dorms and had a pretty normal college experience, even though it was in my hometown. I really thrived there. I feel like it really suited me and served me well in terms of how I grew up there.”

Feels Years Wells Term Four College Grew Normal Grew Up Moved Four Years Hometown Pittsburgh Dorms College Experience

Author:Zachary Quinto

“His [Frank Sinatra] voice defined not only a certain period of time, but America and what America meant to the world. Sinatra grew up, as my grandparents did, when being Italian was very, very prejudice against, but they didn't let it bring them down or use it as an excuse.”

World Use America Certain Voice Grew Periods Grew Up Prejudice Excuse Defined Italian Frank Grandparent Being Italian

Author:Robert Davi

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