“Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.” PeopleMindIdeasBigsAgeGenerationsMinutesHavensGrewGrew UpNuclearAnnihilationHardcoreForthcomingGodzilla Author:Brad Warner
“Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.” PeopleStoriesEyeGrewGrew UpWesternPlentyShoreDrought Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.” PeopleLooksGrewGrew UpMilesTrappedSuburbs8 Mile Author:Thao Nguyen
“In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.” PeopleThinkingWayMatterSocialRecordsMediaGrewGrew UpSocial MediaWorriedLooking Good Author:Patrick Grant
“I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.” PeopleMadeDreamGamesSimpleGrewHeroGrew UpBiggerRaisesAspire Author:Mike Vallely
“Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.” PeopleBelieveEnvironmentProductsGrewGrew UpBrainwashedBelfast Author:Andy Serkis
“I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.” PeopleAbleWantedParentChurchListeningGrewGrew UpFranklinMarvin Author:Rahki
“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentPlayKidsChurchGrowing UpGrowingFiguresListeningGrewWorshipGrew UpJazzGuitarBackgroundsPlentyOddDifferent ThingsUniquenessNerdAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Michael Gungor
“I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.” PeopleFeelsWholeSoundGrewGrew UpWhole LifeCharmJust OneIrelandSock Author:Saoirse Ronan
“My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.” PeopleRealStoriesWantedReadingSpaceHugeGrewInvolvedDirectTiredResponseRelateAgencyOperaTypicalGet InvolvedArcsSweeping Author:Nathan Lowell
“I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveLooksPersonsHardShowsFilmTalkingShareNew YorkGrewGrew UpWideRangeHard To BelieveTalking About Someone Author:Adepero Oduye
“Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.” PeopleSkyInfluenceHugeGrewGrew Up Author:John Cariani
“I grew up caring about people and I would say again, that's what made me who I am. I became a doctor for what I like to call "healthy reasons." Not because I'm fascinated by the human body or want to understand death, but I like people and I want to help them. That also became my problem, because I couldn't help everyone, I couldn't fix everyone.” PeopleWantHumansMadeReasonHelpingProblemBodyGrewHealthyGrew UpDoctorsCaringWho I AmFascinatedHuman Body Author:Bernie Siegel
“The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.” PeopleCommunityChurchFourWonderfulBuildingGrewTiredReputationSundayPreachingCongregation Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanEyeWorryRichGrewGrew UpPoundsRelativeLook At MePaying Rent Author:Bradford Cox
“You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.” PeopleThinkingCertainAcceptanceGrewNeededLateGrew UpPrivilegeToo LateAdmirationPeersValidationCobain Author:Bradford Cox
“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.” PeopleWayGrowsStuffHoursHalfGrowing UpNew YorkGrewBandGrew UpTownsOne WayBetter PlaceSmall TownTouringNazareth Author:Daughn Gibson
“We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.” PeopleYearsBookFacesRoomsTaughtGrewDadGrew UpAppearanceStunned Author:Terry Gross
“I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.” PeopleKidsParentGrewGrew UpTough Author:John Darnielle
“My whole view of music completely flipped over on its head. I grew up listening to punk rock, SST. I liked people that were making music that weren't necessarily very good at their instruments, it was more about the ideas they had than how well they could play and sing.” PeopleWellsIdeasPlayWholeViewsRocksListeningGrewGrew UpInstrumentsVery GoodPunkPunk RockFlipped Author:Doug Martsch
“I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.” PeopleLooksFacesTelevisionGrewGrew UpPuzzled Author:Joe Zee
“When I grew up, all of our news, weather, and sports came from America. The people where I grew up rooted for American teams as opposed to Canadian teams.” PeopleAmericaSportsTeamGrewGrew UpNewsWeatherRooted Author:Lori Lansens
“If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.” PeopleIfsGrewGrew UpComplicatedHearing Author:Dani Shapiro
“If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning.” PeopleIfsKnowsI CanDifferentBlackAudienceGrewGrew UpBlack PeopleDifferent Meanings Author:Neal Brennan
“I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.” PeopleHouseGrewGrew UpInnocentShockedTaboo Author:Sarah Silverman
“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldJobsFatherOpportunitySawsGrewGrew UpEnglandTownsYeahUniversityNew WorldCoalBetter LifeMiningTextilesCoal MiningBradford Author:Aasif Mandvi
“When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.” PeopleFirstsGrewGrew UpExcitedMonica Author:Serena Williams
“I always tell people is really make sure you know why you want to do it. For me, I didnt make a conscious decision like "Oh I want to be a singer", it was like I grew up around it, I was singing because it was just natural for me to sing.” PeopleKnowsWantNaturalDecisionGrewGrew UpSingingConsciousSingers Author:Jhene Aiko
“I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.” PeopleThinkingGrewGrew UpAssumingCaliforniaConfusedLouisiana Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.” PeopleWayI CanCountryHardStatesMinutesGrewMountainGrew UpWestWoodsHillsCoalVirginiaLivelihoodMiningKentuckyHard LifeTennesseeWest VirginiaLoggingCoal Mining Author:Ralph Stanley
“I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.” PeopleDifferentGrewGrew UpCatholicAtheistAgnosticMidwestDifferent FaithsCatholic Family Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.” PeopleWayPartyGrewRepublicanGrew UpReactionsRepublican PartyMisunderstoodSegregation Author:Jeff Sessions
“My father was a Muslim immigrant; when Donald Trump started talking about banning Muslim immigrants from this country, I grew my beard out. My mother hated it. She never wanted me to look particularly "Muslim." She thought if I grew my beard out that people would know, right? "Don't make it hard for yourself. Don't let people know."” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksCountryHardWantedMotherFatherTalkingGrewTrumpHatedImmigrantsBeard Author:Andrew Aydin
“I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.” PeopleNeedsDoeSaidIdeasHoursWhiteWalksHalfGrewGrew UpMajoritySouthConservativeArguingAtmosphereMinoritiesGeorgiaBaptists Author:David Cross
“I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.” PeopleSportsParentClassMiddleGrewGrew UpCoachingMiddle ClassEntrepreneurialInputGreat ParentsGreat Coaching Author:Jerry Jones
“I look at Large Professor as a big influence. I grew up with him and being able to grow up with him enabled me to meet Nas, Busta, Q-Tip and all these people I looked up to at the time. Even Large himself. He was a good friend but at the same time he was definitely someone I looked up to.” PeopleLooksBigsAbleGrowsGrowing UpInfluenceGrewGrew UpProfessorsGood Friend Author:Mic Geronimo
“I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same with Smokey Robinson. So they were such a huge influence as a child that to actually sit alongside them and perform on the same bill was an amazing experience for me.” PeopleChildrenSongLaughingInfluenceHugeListeningGrewGrew UpSingingBillsCarolsAmazing Experiences Author:MC Lyte
“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.” PeopleFeelingsWantedGrewGrew UpMaking People HappyPleasers Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“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.” PeopleRomanceGrewGrew UpNerd Author:Mindy Kaling
“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.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsWritingHardUsedForgetIssuesComedyGrewGrew UpJokesTablesIndianMaternity Author:Mindy Kaling
“I grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where people are in cars.” PeopleCarGrewGrew UpSouthLos Angeles Author:Kehinde Wiley
“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.” PeopleFunGrewGrew UpHorse Author:Gigi Hadid
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUsedMissingGrewGrew UpEastWeatherCaliforniaCoastEast CoastVermont Author:Martha Ronk
“I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleYearsFilmMoralJourneyGrewHeroGrew UpMythGuidesBrilliantI RealizedDietsClassicExpertsThemeFablesChroniclesDisney Film Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.” PeopleMoralGrewGrew UpMythGuidesDietsExpertsThemeFables Author:Roger Ross Williams
“People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts.” PeopleUsedGuyTermGrewComfortableGrew UpMalesShirtsClothingsDungarees Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasStatesGovernmentFacesSpeakSoundEffortEconomyTakenGrewMessagesGrew UpRedBlowProtectionAbsurdAlternativesBitesInitiativeGlobal EconomyCushionsNanniesOverboardOf ContextSound Bites Author:Van Jones
“When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.” PeopleThinkingWayMadeIdeasYoungViewsPartyStudentsGrewMetsGrew UpWingsUniversityConservativeExtremesWay Of ThinkingRight WingCountrysideBudapest Author:Csanad Szegedi
“[Michael] Chabon is arguing in favor of what is at the same time an old-fashioned and very forward-thinking opening up - of taking off the class associations with those labels, because we grew up, or I certainly grew up, feeling that, "Oh, there's literary fiction, and beneath that, there's these other things." He's actually saying that they're all of equal merit, and in many cases, that work in the genres, or work that draws from the genres is more entertaining for readers, since it is our job to entertain people.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsJobsFictionClassCasesGrewReaderEqualGrew UpDrawsArguingFavorsOpeningLabelsGenreMeritAssociationEntertainingOld FashionedOpening UpGenre IsForward Thinking Author:Emily Barton
“I grew up watching a lot of old movies, so getting to ask about making movies in the '70s and people he was friends with, like Orson Welles, Lillian Hellman and Charlie Chaplin, and hearing a first-person account was pretty incredible.” PeopleFirstsPersonsAsksGrewGrew UpAccountsIncrediblesHearingCharlieFirst PersonOld MovieChaplin Author:Alden Ehrenreich