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“When you grow up, your heart dies.”

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Book:Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes

Source: Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes

“I wanna grow up and be a critic.”

Grows Growing Up Critics

Author:Richard Pryor

“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

People Ifs Wonder Growing Up Growing Missing

Book:Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

Source: Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel

“No one ever told me when I was growing up that make-up and skirts were just for girls. If you're confident and you own it, [the other kids] are fine with it...I've always supported the lifestyle that I will do what I please and deal with it.”

Ifs Kids Girl Deals Growing Up Growing Fine Please Lifestyle Skirts

Author:Dominic Monaghan

“I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.”

Kids Grows Boys Growing Up Our Lives Hopefully Bullied

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.”

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Book:And the Bridge Is Love

Source: And the Bridge Is Love

“I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.”

Ifs Wells Stills Happens Fall Force Grows Silence Forever Growing Up Heard Dying Terrible Mouths Stones Graves Grieving Unsaid Speechless

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.”

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Author:Mary Harron

“All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.”

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Author:Luc Sante

“Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.”

People Grows Growing Up Personality Atmosphere Persistent Shanghai

Author:Amy Tan

“They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.”

People Stills Dream Bigs Growing Up Growing Towns Dreamer Small Town Describe Me

Author:Clay Guida

“I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.”

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Author:Michelle Rhee

“Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.”

Kids Age Culture Games Grows Growing Up Player Soccer

Author:Tony DiCicco

“In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!”

Feels Trying Ends Together Love Is Growing Up Growing Figures Stronger This Life One Love

Author:Gilles Marini

“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.”

“You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.”

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Author:Charles Roven

“I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.”

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Author:Matt Reeves

“In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.”

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Author:David Adjaye

“Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.”

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Author:Lauren Bacall

“In a democracy, every little wrong idea may grow up to become national policy.”

May Littles Ideas Grows Growing Up Democracy Policy Wrong Ideas

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.”

Men World Want Kind Character Choices Grows Growing Up One Day Changing The World Steel Good Character

Author:Jonathan Kent

“I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.”

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Author:Jill McCorkle

“We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.”

“In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put in mildly - a fatal design flaw.”

Firsts Kids Language Grows Growing Up Mines Ownership Mama

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.”

Want Children Grows Boys Growing Up Adventure Universal Appeals

Author:Tessa Jowell

“Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand.”

Growing Up Growing Starting Picky

Author:Mike Trout

“All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.”

Grows Differences Principles Growing Up Poet Baby Infant

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'”

Thinking World Want Years I Can Whole Girl Courses Grows Born Growing Up Moon Whole World Coincidence Apollo Eleven Nasa

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up. By writing code, I learned how to bring my dreams to life, how to budget, and how to build stuff. Whatever path you choose in life - being an artist, an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a politician, you will give yourself a huge leg up if you learn how to code.”

“One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.”

Source: The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism

“Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.”

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Author:Walter Smith

“One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.”

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Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.”

“Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.”

People Children Book Wanted Grows Realizing Growing Up Tree Flying Aspire Feats Inhuman

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.”

Thinking Children Made Whole Moments Lasts Purpose Values Grows Growing Up Built Lilies Disdain

Book:Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

Source: Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia Play 2

“I am concerned that my children will grow up sheltered from the public. I am concerned that the children get to experience childhood and youth in their time without constant monitoring. It has been very important for both the Crown Prince and myself.”

Children Has Beens Important Grows Growing Up Childhood Youth Concerned Constant My Children Crowns Monitoring

Author:Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

“I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.”

Way Stills I Can Shows Sides Memories Cities Growing Up Growing Streets New York Musician Adults Jazz Clubs New York City Spontaneous Jazz Music Jazz Musician Quartets Great Memories

Author:Tony Bennett

“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.”

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Author:Justin Simien

“Sedaris, in his essay in the It Gets Better book, writes that when he was growing up nobody called him gay because you might as well have called him a warlock. Nobody knew what gay was.”

Writing Wells Book Might Growing Up Growing Gay Get Better Essays Warlocks It Gets Better

Author:Dan Savage

“I did not grow up in the church. I'm not a church-goer now. I'm a very spiritual person.”

Persons Spiritual Grows Church Growing Up

Author:Malcolm D. Lee

“If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.”

Ifs Home Action Grows Growing Up Consequence Strategy Impulse Predictable

Author:David Brooks

“We're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway?”

Want Mind Mean Ideas Young Grows Growing Up

Author:Niall Horan

“[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.”

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Author:Elana Meyers

“Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.”

Years Two Country Grows Cities Growing Up New York Yeah Parks Lakes Competing Utah Placid Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.”

Thinking Girl Opportunity Grows Growing Up Groups Like Me Chicago Diverse Georgia

Author:Elana Meyers

“I'm not trying to snowboard for other people anymore. That just kind of comes with age and growing up. That's helped me a lot. Some of that started right after the last Olympics (in Vancouver).”

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Author:Kelly Clark