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Author:Katherine Heigl

“Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.”

Mean Feelings Eye Grows Growing Up Issues Immune Public Eye

Author:Amber Tamblyn

“My life has always been full of music..My father was a concert promoter when I was a kid so music has always been a part of my life growing up, furthering my desire to do music when I was old enough to create it on my own.”

Enough Kids Desire Father My Own Growing Up Growing Concerts Promoters

Author:Truth Hurts

“I did have a lot of lack, but I never experienced it. I grew up in the east side of Detroit, in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. Even growing up in an orphanage, I never woke up saying, "I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me."”

Littles Today Sides Poor Poverty Growing Up Growing Grew Terrible Grew Up Areas Hunger East Detroit Orphan Scarcity Orphanage East Side Poor Me

Author:Wayne Dyer

“It's the lack of this kind of open and honest education about sex that causes so many kids to grow up with sexual hang-ups.”

Kind Kids Sex Grows Causes Growing Up Honest Hang Ups

Author:Johnny Carson

“I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.”

Thinking Want My Own Pleasure Growing Up Growing Musical Upbringing Just Listen

Author:Mike Stud

“People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.”

People Grows Born Growing Up Thrill Junkie

Author:George Jung

“Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'”

World Able Actors Deals Growing Up Growing Land Industry

Author:Lake Bell

“Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style.”

Bigs Artist Courses Growing Up Growing Fans Style Rap Swagger

Author:Kirko Bangz

“I'm not even sure of what I want in a woman yet. I have a lot of things to do in life. When I grow up as long as she can cook, take care of the kids, and make me feel like "Daddy" then I'll be alright with her.”

Want Feels Long Care Kids Grows Growing Up Take Care Cooks Things To Do Daddy Alright

Author:Kirko Bangz

“I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.”

Thinking Way Long Stories Kids Term Roles Growing Up Growing Trouble Dad Models Males Role Models Providing Mentor Long Way Think Positive Kids Growing Up Male Role Models

Author:Donald Miller

“When I was growing up, my favorite player was Reggie Jackson - and I never got the opportunity to get an autograph from Reggie. I was so frustrated. I mean, he was my idol. And I couldn't get no autograph. I would go through punishment waiting on him (after games) because he was always the last guy to come out. And I would go back home with no autograph.”

Mean Home Lasts Guy Opportunity Games Waiting Growing Up Growing Player My Favorite Punishment Idols Frustrated Back Home Autographs

Author:Rickey Henderson

“There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities that you do after-hours, rather than things that are at the heart of life. That's a huge change.”

Thinking Heart Art Book Whole Hours Growing Up Growing Generations Huge Activity Sake Theatre After Hours Huge Changes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.”

People Thinking World Country Helping Humanity Grows Realizing Growing Up Citizens Helping Others Obligation

Author:George Lucas

“My dream was to grow up and get a job at IBM, like my dad. That seemed like a logical dream.”

Dream Jobs Grows Growing Up Dad My Dad Logical Ibm

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

Want Inspirational Children Littles Play Grows Boys Growing Up Son Little Boys Inner Child Children Playing

Book:Something happened

Source: Something happened

“There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.”

People Thinking Believe Sports Growing Up Growing Figures Neighborhood Idolized

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.”

Thinking Firsts Important Real Today Young Girl Careers Growing Up Growing Honor Astronaut

Author:Sally Ride

“I was having a good time before, but you grow up after a couple years and realize, "I can't get drunk like this every night." Things change.”

Years I Can Night Grows Realizing Growing Up Couple Drunk Good Times Every Night Things Change Having A Good Time

Author:Mac DeMarco

“Hoodie was just a nickname I had growing up and I just wanted to have a name that would stick in peoples' minds and be a little bit funny and representative of who I am.”

Mind Littles Wanted Names Bits Growing Up Growing Little Bit Sticks Who I Am Representatives Nicknames

Author:Hoodie Allen

“Everyone goes through their stuff when they are growing up. It's all relative. Everyone has the same situations on their menu. We just make the choices in terms of what situations we're going to eat.”

Choices Stuff Term Situation Growing Up Growing Relative Menus

Author:Gary Busey

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not a great player. Be realistic. When I got rejection letters from colleges where I wanted to coach, my mom would say, "You are going to make it someday. You have something special within you and that is your spirit for life which will help you get to the top."”

People Helping Wanted Spirit Growing Up Growing Player Special College Mom Letters My Mom Coaches Rejection Someday Realistic Within You Something Special Rejection Letters

Author:Dick Vitale

“I'm fascinated by offensive subject matter. Always have been. It is very natural to me, as any teach I've ever had growing up could attest.”

Has Beens Matter Natural Teach Growing Up Growing Subjects Fascinated Offensive Subject Matter

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“We really didn't have the option of being couch potatoes when I was growing up. There were only three television channels and the only kid's programming was on Saturday morning. We always played outside until we could hear Mom calling us (not by cell phone but with her hands cupped around her mouth) that it was dinner time.”

Hands Kids Three Morning Growing Up Growing Television Mom Calling Mouths Phones Dinner Cells Programming Saturday Potatoes Couches Cell Phone Saturday Morning Dinner Time

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.”

“I have a basic theorem as to how I do my jokes. Growing up, I knew when to cross the line and when not to cross the line. It's the same with my comedy. I know what my audience will take and how much they won't take. I can't give you a formula for it. It's my own personal formula inside my head. Somebody else's might be different.”

Knows Giving I Can Different Might Lines My Own Audience Growing Up Comedy Growing Jokes Crosses Formulas Theorems

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.”

Thinking Men Grows Boys Growing Up Genius Instinct Shy Motherly

Author:Bill Burr

“I refuse to grow up. I won't become the adult guy.”

Guy Grows Growing Up Adults Refuse

Author:Charlie Sheen

“It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.”

Mean Running Grows Parent Growing Up Like You Okay Scary Slow Down Slowing Running Out Of Time

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.”

Believe Matter Turns Belief Force Growing Up Growing Taught Amount Come Up Pornography Belief Systems Armstrong

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.”

Years Remember Values Boys Growing Up Growing Discipline Our Family Farms Through The Years

Author:Billy Graham

“I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Children Stories Fall Wonder Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up India Falling In Love East Tales Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Salman Rushdie

“When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field.”

Grows Fiction Growing Up Growing Fields Science Fiction

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Most of my close friends, growing up, were women - and even after I got married, I still maintained a lot of those friendships. But as they get married, and as I get older, I'm making a lot of the transition to the husbands.”

Stills Growing Up Growing Husband Married Transition Close Friends Friends Growing Up

Author:Andrew Gurland

“I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.”

Play Age Used Growing Up Growing Hockey Skates

Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt.”

People Knows Want Looks Beautiful Desire Grows Growing Up Journey Mirrors Desperate

Author:Tina Fey

“I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.”

Enough Remember Grows Black Race Growing Up Son Tvs Daughter My Son Remember When Quarterback

Author:Chris Rock

“My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.”

“Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.”

World Film Growing Up Growing Transport Another World Day Life

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.”

Ifs World Want Years Children Different Today Culture Grows Growing Up Rich Scales My Children Acknowledge Deaf World Today Implants

Author:Andrew Solomon

“The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.”

World Children Stills Ideas Would Be Left Grows Parent Growing Up Changed Gay Homosexual Gay Parents

Author:Andrew Solomon

“People are more easily manipulated when they don't have information. If you ensure that kids grow up without basic reading skills, math skills, and so forth, then you ensure that they can't act effectively.”

People Ifs Kids Reading Grows Growing Up Information Skills Math Math Skills

Author:Tony Kushner

“For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.”

Feels Long Made Play Parent Christ Church Growing Up Growing Grew Involved Band Grew Up Long Time Instruments Musical Guilty Trumpets Baggage Musical Instruments Church Of Christ

Author:Gary Panter

“I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.”

Kind Done Song Growing Up Growing Couple All Kinds Ghetto Sexually Bad Experiences

Author:Lady Saw

“He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.”

Ideas Humor Funny Grows Growing Up South No Idea

Author:Fred Allen

“When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.”

Needs Humor Funny Used Realizing Growing Up Growing Drug Doctors Dealer Robins

Author:Robin Williams

“I don't come from a wealthy or privileged background, and growing up I was always looking for the best quality at a price I could afford. My love of vintage is rooted in that. Drugstores were the mecca for the latest makeup trends and products.”

Quality Growing Up Growing Products Backgrounds Makeup Wealthy Trends Rooted Privileged Vintage Mecca

Author:Eva Mendes

“My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.”

“Basically, growing up, and being a teenage kid, I've always been interested in charity. And one of the benefits of being on a TV show and having a fan base, you kind of have the power to spread news around.”

Kind Shows Kids Growing Up Growing Fans Tvs Benefits News Charity Spread Tv Shows Teenage

Author:Gregg Sulkin

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