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“There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"”

Thinking Wells Kids Left Grows Growing Up Generations Mom Workforce

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.”

Growing Up Growing Dad Speech My Dad Live By Words To Live By Good Words Craziest

Author:Kendall Jenner

“I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.”

Inspiration Education Growing Up Growing Magic Childhood Youth Laughter Flying Peter

Author:Michael Jackson

“I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.”

Feels Persons Grows Acting Growing Up Growing Growing As A Person

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles. It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing.”

Feelings Girl Growing Up Growing Dancing My Favorite Favorites Things Supermarkets That Girl Aisle Girls Growing Up

Author:Florence Welch

“I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.”

Ifs Grows Acting Growing Up Hollywood

Author:Rashida Jones

“I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you."”

Use Shows Film Courses Opportunity Growing Up Growing Please Musical Singers I Realized Classic Auditions Standpoint Classic Films

Author:Dianna Agron

“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Persons Kids Moral Growing Up Nice Growing Dog Like You Standards Thoughtful Rude Nice Person

Author:Julianne Hough

“My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.”

Feels Mother Sides Growing Up Growing And Off Bahamas

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.”

Interesting Growing Up Growing Horrible Getting Old Growing Old Optional Compulsory

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.”

Years War Bigs Guy Stars Rooms Growing Up Growing Fans Huge Scene Nerd Family Guy

Author:Alex Borstein

“People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.”

People Want Guy Hurt Break Growing Up Growing Seeing Brother Six Beats Bones Bruises

Author:Kellan Lutz

“Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is perfect except for god." And I always knew that; I just wanted my victories to be flawless. I didn't want to get hit at all. I wasn't gonna make any mistakes. And that's the problem with me growing up and being around a trainer that wants his fighter to be perfect.”

People Want Wells Said Important Problem Wanted Mother Certain Perfect Mistake Growing Up Growing Victory Fighter Trainers Flawless

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.”

Ifs Thinking Way Certain Difficult Growing Up Growing Mom Expectations Scared My Mom Difficult Things

Author:Milla Jovovich

“I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.”

People Thinking Want Hard Opportunity Given Parent Interesting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Unique Raised Great Family Unique Opportunities Wonderful Parents

Author:Abby Huntsman

“I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Littles Might Young Grows Bits Growing Up Failing Little Bit Grownups

Author:Laura Benanti

“Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.”

People Thinking Father Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Good Role Models

Author:Halle Berry

“Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.”

School Poor Growing Up Growing Lunch

Author:George Foreman

“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.”

Ifs Want Needs Jobs Parent Responsibility Support Growing Up Growing Industry Fortunate Being The Best Dedication Relentless

Author:Danica Patrick

“There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.”

Knows World Writing Years Littles Book Problem Lasts Moving Grows Growing Up Subjects Six Our Family Chapters Learning More

Author:David McCullough

“[Growing up in rural Ohio], all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders. I'm more comfortable with straight women. I don't have any lesbian friends, sadly.”

Growing Up Growing Comfortable Girlfriend My Girlfriend Ohio Cheerleader

Author:Jackie Warner

“If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.”

People Ifs Age Grows Cities Growing Up Violence Dying Car Cancer Old Age Bullets Wrecks Suburbs People Dying Car Wreck

Author:Suge Knight

“There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Admire

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“We're growing up with a very illiterate bunch of children who have somehow been taught that film is fact when, in fact, it's invention. Hopefully, an historical film will inspire people to go and read about the history but in the end it is a work of fiction and selection. As for the armour itself, no it wasn't particularly comfortable.”

People Children Ends Facts Film Fiction Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Comfortable Historical Invention Bunch Hopefully Selection Illiterate Armour

Author:Cate Blanchett

“Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.”

Growing Up Growing Expression Empathy Mirrors Artificial Intelligence Artificial Robots Facial Neurons Quiver Facial Expression

Author:Diane Ackerman

“When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.”

Want Happens Grows Growing Up Honest Lawyer

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.”

People Thinking Want Looks Grows Growing Up Type Band Train Wrecks Train Wrecks

Author:Billy Corgan

“One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially constructed self and transcendent being, organism and machine.”

Firsts Persons Self Challenges Growing Up Growing Century Planets Machines Twenties Definitions Acquire Organisms Transcendent

Author:Walter Truett Anderson

“And, as my father used to tell me growing up, "Play it beautiful, play it beautiful." He said, "I don't care if you don't hit all of the notes. If you don't move a person's heart, it's not music."”

Ifs Heart Persons Said Play Care Beautiful Moving Used Father Growing Up Growing Notes Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Christopher Parkening

“Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.”

Thinking Age Certain Grows Growing Up Grownups

Author:Keith Richards

“My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.”

Remember Growing Up Happened Birthday Faculty Criminal Mind 50th Birthday Birthdays And Aging Funny Old Age Birthday Age And Youth Young Birthday Things Past

Book:Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

Source: Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

“Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.”

“I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana. There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented. When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.”

Firsts Country States Reason Whole Challenges Growing Up Growing Produce Football Fit Demand Training Athlete Whole Life Enjoyed Division Navy Seals Montana Navy Seal

Author:Ryan Zinke

“My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.”

People Mother Given Imagination Growing Up Growing Emotional Tough South Tension Touched Agreement Courageous Bullshit My Imagination Captured Charisma Eccentricity Quota Histrionic

Author:Willie Morris

“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”

People Thinking Feels Mean Doe Done Grows Parent Roles Growing Up Wife Husband Solidity

Author:Priscilla Ahn

“Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.”

Trying Different Kids School Felt Growing Up Growing Equal Approach Multicultural

Author:Priscilla Ahn

“What a waste of an education Rick Santorum is! ... Let's just pray that none of his home-schooled kids grow up to be an airline pilot, okay? That's all I'm asking. Please dear God, do not let any of these home-schooled kids grow up to be a surgeon, an airline pilot, or a nurse. Or somebody that's in charge of my trans-vaginal mandatory ultrasound. Seriously, no science-y things for them, you know, just religion, let them be all preachers or something.”

Knows Home Kids Grows Growing Up Praying Please Waste Okay Asking Dear Nurse Pilots Preacher Airline Surgeons Trans Schooled Dear God Ultrasounds Airline Pilots

Author:Randi Rhodes

“I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.”

Thinking Responsibility Growing Up Growing Handle

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.”

People Grows Realizing Growing Up Nerd

Author:Leelee Sobieski

“I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'”

Thinking Hell Growing Up Growing Late Too Late

Author:Ronnie Wood

“I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.”

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Author:Chuck Klosterman

“I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.”

People Next Fun Grows Growing Up Sea Keys Grew Type Grew Up Lows South Open Minded Sociable Low Key

Author:Nicki Minaj

“The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.”

Way Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Beats Tough Survived Jersey Being Funny Jersey City

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them.”

Made Growing Up Growing College Closest Adore Grounded Closest Friends

Author:Alexander Wang

“I feel like confidence is something that ebbs and flows. I was given a lot of love and attention from my family growing up, so for sure I had a natural confidence.”

Feels Given Natural Attention Growing Up Growing Flow My Family Ebb And Flow Family Growing Up

Author:Milla Jovovich

“My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.”

Stories Dream Reading Novel Growing Up Growing Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Author:Irena A. Hoffman

“[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.”

People Way Want Needs Made Ideas Hate Growing Up Growing Special Mets I Hate Shoes Denial Restaurants Neighborhood Strict Allergic Allergies Special Needs Tailored Lotion

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.”

“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.”

Mother Artist Grows Growing Up Painting Naked Household Sculpture Taboo Nudity

Author:Ingrid Michaelson

“I always challenged men, you know, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they’ll catch up.”

Knows Men Way Long Kids Born Challenges Race Accepting Growing Up Growing Feet Beats Pushing Testosterone Kids Growing Up Challenging Myself

Author:Katie Uhlaender

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