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“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a federal housing project, and we were not allowed to have a dog or cats. The only pets I could have were turtles. So, I had an entire toy castle filled with dime-store turtles. I gave them all names, and since they were living in a toy castle, I decided they were all knights and kingsand I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles. I decided later to recast it with actual human beings.”

“You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.”

Knows Want Years Littles Said Two Boys Growing Up Growing Wonderful Magazines Wiser Wonderful Things Nests Pennies Brooklyn Tick Hawks

Author:Buddy Hackett

“I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.”

America House Growing Up Growing Sick Russia Horrible Treated Asthma Ambulance

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.”

Thinking Should Growing Up Growing Mortality Good Writers

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I didn't have the worst childhood, but I didn't have the best, and when you grow up like that, you have certain limitations invariably stuck inside you. Slipknot was a way to work it out.”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“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.”

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Author:Corey Taylor

“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.”

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Author:Derrick Rose

“Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Player Magic My Favorite Johnson

Author:Russell Westbrook

“It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.”

Ifs Growing Up Growing Happened Fashion Neighbor Armani

Book:Outliers: The Story of Success

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

“For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that for me heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.”

Thinking Whole Would Be Evil Heaven Felt Growing Up Growing Comfort Shakes Milk Alienation Couches

Author:Alice Sebold

“I had a lovely time growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Lovely

Author:Michael Kiwanuka

“I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.”

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Author:Phil Jackson

“I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair.”

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Author:David Henry Hwang

“I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Whole Character Shows Remember Felt Growing Up Growing Television Racism Prejudice My Way Asian Charlie Television Shows

Author:David Henry Hwang

“Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.”

Writing Book Novel Growing Up Growing Horror Inspired Comic Comic Book Devouring

Author:Colson Whitehead

“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.”

Thinking Want Should Children Use Father Names Wish Stars Grows Bits Steps Growing Up Fields Shadow My Children Movie Star Downers

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Firsts Book Ideas Grows Cities Growing Up Growing Suicide Going Away Detroit Perishing

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.”

“My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.”

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Author:Joanna Trollope

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!”

Important Country Wonder Growing Up Growing Cat Chickens Farms Pigs Calves

Author:Trina

“The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.”

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Author:Trey Parker

“When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.”

Kids Wanted Growing Up Growing Liverpool Kids Growing Up

Author:Paul McCartney

“As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.”

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Author:Otis Redding

“But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand it. Black audiences won't come out for a white writer for the most part. It really is just a fact of life.”

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Author:George Pelecanos

“Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.”

Real Bigs Goal Growing Up Growing Theatre Thrill Broadway

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.”

People Way Want Feels Might Young Grows Difficult Growing Up Internet Pressure Constant Noise Static Buzz

Author:Ethan Hawke

“When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up.”

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Author:Kurt Fuller

“I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.”

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Author:Eli Manning

“Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up listening to music in church, and that was pretty much it. I didn't really grow up listening to AC/DC and all those bands.”

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Author:Avril Lavigne

“Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.”

Heart Feelings Kids Wanted Actors Creativity Growing Up Growing Comedian Being A Kid

Author:Chris Gethard

“When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.”

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Author:Dave Matthews

“I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.”

Important Growing Up Growing Our Family True To Yourself Stay True Stay True To Yourself

Author:Miley Cyrus

“Anybody who knows me knows I'm passionate about American football. I gave this game everything I had. In college, that's what I looked to do. Everything. Everything for so long, and all you hear growing up is that hard work pays off, hard work pays off, hard work pays off.”

Knows Long Hard Games Pay Growing Up Growing Football College Hard Work Passionate Know Me American Football Hard Work Pays Off

Author:La'el Collins

“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.”

Men Bigs Kids Growing Up Growing Vocalist

Author:Justin Bieber

“I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young people who are left on their own with the world, and the four children's books I've written feature that very thing: children that are abandoned by their families or running away from their families or ignored by their families and having to grow up quicker than they should, like David Copperfield - having to be the hero of their own story.”

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Author:John Boyne

“Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.”

People Believe Kids Hurt Hell Growing Up Growing Don't Believe Good Place

Author:Rob Zombie

“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”

Moments Home Eye Wanted School Remember Given Parent Watches Growing Up Growing Daughter My Daughter That Moment Single Parent

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.”

Thinking Want Jobs Grows Growing Up Plans

Author:Hilary Liftin

“It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me].”

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Author:Richard Simmons

“I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character.”

Thinking Way Character Humor Funny Girl Grows Growing Up Growing Ten Skins Combination

Author:Tina Fey

“When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.”

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Author:Eddie Van Halen

“Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?”

Want Children Grows Growing Up Adults Our Children Your Children

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.”

Thinking Jobs Simple Growing Up Growing Depends Pages Turner

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.”

Firsts Guy Song Energy Growing Up Growing Track Cents Energetic Laid Back

Author:Meek Mill

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