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“My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me.”

Knows Littles House Grows Parent Growing Up Knowing Trouble Childhood Taught Brother Following Nine Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Little Brother

Author:Russell Westbrook

“My absolute favorite growing up was Super Friends. The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.”

Mind Sometimes Wonder Growing Up Growing Hero Absolutes Flash Mind Blowing Wonder Woman Assemblage Blowing It

Author:Michael Ian Black

“The days of television as we knew it growing up are over. You have a bigger, wider world audience on the Internet, larger than any American television series. People don't watch television in the same context as before. Nowadays they watch their television on the Internet at their convenience. That's the whole wave, and it's now - not the future.”

People World Whole Watches Audience Growing Up Growing Television Internet Bigger Series Wave Over You Convenience American Television

Author:Criss Angel

“Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.”

Wonder Growing Up Growing Tvs Pride Carter Wonder Woman Latina

Author:Constance Marie

“Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Neighborhood Riding Dirt Bike Skateboarding Bike Riding Dirt Bikes

Author:Daniella Monet

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”

Ifs Children Grows Imagination Growing Up Doubt My Imagination Children Imagination Eggplant

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“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

“When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.”

Knows World Children Three Grows Growing Up Citizens Adults Committed Meals Productive Squares Unlikely

Author:Stephanie March

“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

“Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.”

Growing Up Growing My Family Lifestyle Moderates

Author:Liam Hemsworth

“I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.”

Knows Actors Growing Up Growing Type Dad My Dad Builder

Author:Stephen Mangan

“Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.”

Different Stories Film Imagination Interesting Growing Up Growing Television Dad My Dad Mediums Enjoyed Ran My Imagination

Author:Shiloh Fernandez

“I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.”

World Want Believe Kids Growing Up Growing Destructive Kids Growing Up

Author:Chuck Connors

“One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.”

Inspiration Girl Church Growing Up Growing Singing Fellows East Passing Passings Orange Jersey Baptists New Jersey Devastated Houston Whitney New Hope Jersey Girl

Author:Naturi Naughton

“I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.”

Thinking Inspiration Action Film Actors Growing Up Growing Tvs Mom Horror My Mom Horror Film Action Films

Author:Rick Gonzalez

“I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.”

Bigs Wanted Jobs Found Felt Growing Up Growing Debt Terrified Deprived

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.”

Thinking Girl Grows Felt Growing Up Smart Being Smart

Author:Kerry Washington

“My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.”

Action Wanted Imagination Growing Up Growing My Favorite Tattoo Action Movie Supergirl

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn't mean that I'm less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It's kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.”

Thinking Mean Littles Play Running Kids Bits Sides Growing Up Growing Little Bit Dresses Girly Barbie Kids Growing Up

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“It's hard enough growing up and figuring out who you are and what on earth you wanna be and it doesn't help when people are constantly cutting you down”

People Hard Enough Helping Earth Growing Up Cutting Growing Who You Are

Author:Selena Gomez

“I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.”

Kids Wanted Growing Up Growing One Thing Painter

Author:Andy Serkis

“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.”

America Remember Opportunity Growing Up Rich Growing Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Get Rich

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Top Gun was one of my favorite movies growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Gun My Favorite

Author:Stephen Colletti

“I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Couple Halls Concerts Pianist Carnegie Carnegie Hall Accompanists

Author:Kirsten Nelson

“I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.”

People Thinking Different Culture Actors Grows Growing Up Youth Meetings Theatre Backgrounds Mixing Different Cultures Different Religions Different Backgrounds Youth Theatre

Author:Ashley Jensen

“We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.”

Years Has Beens Different Whole Interest Forget Growing Up Growing Ambition India Connected Selfish Empires Midst Nationality Provinces Selfish Interest

Author:Chittaranjan Das

“Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.”

House Sides Walks Growing Up Growing Stranger Adolescence

Book:Seventeenth Summer

Source: Seventeenth Summer

“Growing up crowds your mind with new thoughts and new feelings so that you forget how you used to think and feel.”

Thinking Feels Mind Feelings Used Forget Growing Up Growing Crowds Adolescence New Thought New Feelings

Book:Seventeenth Summer

Source: Seventeenth Summer

“Growing up is loving what you can afford to.”

Growing Up Growing Adulthood

Book:THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

Source: THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN

“With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.”

Years Courses Grows Gone Growing Up Who You Are Mature

Author:Hope Solo

“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.”

Country Young Mother Girl Growing Up Growing Huge Listening Heavy Metals Fanatics Nelson Heavy Metal Indigo

Author:Tig Notaro

“I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.”

Bigs Used Watches Growing Up Growing Horror Nightmare Sissy

Author:Danielle Panabaker

“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Fighting Father Grows Know How Growing Up One Day Lonely Our Children Vulnerable Miserable Your Children Vigilant Lonely Women

Author:Joanna Noelle Levesque

“Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.”

Growing Up Growing Burden Suits Wearing A Suit

Author:Vincent Piazza

“My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.”

Growing Up Growing Profession Southern Far Away Illinois

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.”

People Thinking Knows World Want Years Children Whole Used Growing Up Fate Growing Player Policy This World Baseball Twenties Our Children Contracts Baseball Player

Author:Jackson Browne

“I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.”

Courses Growing Up Growing Garlands Leonardo

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was CATS, for my birthday.”

Shows Mother Growing Up Growing Cat Take Me My Birthday

Author:Tammy Blanchard

“I was a total jock growing up. I went to super-dorky basketball clinics and was handpicked to play on a state team called the Texas Heat.”

States Play Growing Up Growing Team Basketball Heat Texas Clinic Jocks Dorky

Author:Erin Wasson

“I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.”

Thinking World Whole Process Growing Up Growing Design Inspire Evolution Backgrounds Modeling

Author:Erin Wasson

“It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.”

Grows Growing Up Bears Eras Chicago 80s Jordan Great Times Time To Grow Up

Author:Bailey Chase

“I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.”

Years Art Growing Up Growing Eight Martial Arts Karate

Author:Antony Starr

“Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.”

Hard Growing Up Growing Streets Bed

Author:The Notorious B.I.G.

“Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.”

Done Wanted Growing Up Growing Singers

Author:Sevyn Streeter

“Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.”

Growing Up Growing Color Skins Backgrounds Borders Immigrants Chicago Peculiar Suburbs Stand Alone

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.”

Black Born Half Growing Up Growing Identity Mom Forests Germany Parks Spokes Multiple Accents My Best Friend Mexican Integrated Colombia Vietnamese Multiple Identities

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“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

“Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.”

Ifs Children Persons States Whole Eye Grows Differences Education Half Growing Up Virtue Citizens Constitution Regard Making A Difference

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”

People Ifs Men Giving Years Firsts I Can Matter Wanted Grows Talking Growing Up Records Five Son Gains Gold No Matter What Parenting Phones Artistic Old Man Being There Sean Motorbike

Author:John Lennon

“Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.”

Want Wells Grows Growing Up Parenting Want Him

Author:John Lennon

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