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“I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.”

Kind Hard Body Language Growing Up Growing Hard Times Awkward Body Language

“It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!”

Watches Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Tennis

Author:Christine Taylor

“I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.”

Hard House Quality Growing Up Growing Boxes Work Out Not Sure Candy Chips High Quality Sporadic

Author:Rachael Taylor

“Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.”

Growing Up Growing Bills

Author:Robin Thicke

“I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was forced to grow up on Dolly Parton. My mum was obsessed by her. She bought all this memorabilia for the front room. It's ridiculous.”

Ifs Grows Rooms Growing Up Fronts Example Ridiculous Obsessed Mum Amazed Ipods Eclectic Shuffle Memorabilia

Author:Tinie Tempah

“The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.”

People Way Doe Different Real Facts Problem Courses Causes Growing Up Growing London Different Life

Author:Tinie Tempah

“Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.”

Thinking Moments Past Culture Growing Up Growing Malls Goth

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

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Author:Anne Frank

“You really don't do anything else in your life; it's a very little bubble that you grow up in. And you have to live in that bubble because of the intensity of the sport.”

Littles Grows Sports Growing Up Intensity Bubbles

Author:Estella Warren

“When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.”

School Pay Growing Up Growing Tough My Family Aids Fees Popcorn Doughnut After School Tough Life Kool Aid

Author:George Weah

“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”

“I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.”

People Ifs Want Real Stories Kids Guy Can Do Growing Up Growing Share Type Obstacles Insight Hey Relate This Guy Nurturing Seals

Author:Howard E. Wasdin

“I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.”

Made Kids Used Fun Realizing Growing Up Growing Terrible Males Heavy Dancer Boston

Author:Kenny Wormald

“Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.”

Growing Up Growing Hero Jordan

Author:Kerri Walsh

“I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.”

Kind Real Grows Break Growing Up Sells Estates

Author:Luke Wilson

“I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.”

Thinking Children Littles Wanted Growing Up Growing Brother Only Child Little Sister Little Brother Single Child

Author:Mae Whitman

“That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.”

Knows Trying Different Ends Song Challenges Growing Up Growing Wonderful Talent Songwriters

Author:Margaret Whiting

“So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.”

Years Looks Stories Grows Growing Up Limits Draws Biblical Inclination

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.”

Problem Kids Grows Growing Up

Author:Venus Williams

“I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.”

Thinking Book Kids Growing Up Growing Kings My Favorite Remarkable Favorite Book

Author:David Yates

“Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.”

Inspirational Trying Pain Life Is Grows Growing Up Buddhism Sells Life Is Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Important Kids Past Grows Bits Growing Up Little Bit Important Things Teenager Discovering Little Kid Shrinks Discovering The World

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.”

People Government Talking Growing Up Growing Privacy Bedroom Unreasonable Seizures Unreasonable Searches Unreasonable Search And Seizures

Author:Al Franken

“So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.”

Knows Dream America Found Growing Up Growing Possibility Filled Excitement American Dream Living The American Dream

Author:Mia Love

“Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.”

People Two Hard Helping School Growing Up Growing Seeing Fronts Dad Catholic My Dad Seats Help Me Toilets Catholic School

Author:Mia Love

“I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.”

Feels Girl Grows Growing Up Crazy Crazy Girl

Author:Miranda Lambert

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.”

Real Grows Poverty Growing Up Desperation

Author:Ray LaMontagne

“I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.”

Artist Growing Up Growing Example Theater

Author:Brit Marling

“One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.”

Book Stories Growing Up Growing My Favorite Wrinkles Wrinkle In Time

Author:Brit Marling

“Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.”

People Ends Dream Grows Growing Up Hollywood

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.”

Firsts Growing Up Growing Myth Mythology Celtic Norse

Author:Grant Morrison

“I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.”

Thinking Children Able Grows Growing Up Fishes My Children Controversial

Author:James Murdoch

“Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.”

Mother Values Growing Up Growing Generations Birth Jokes Traditional Traditional Values

Author:Janet McTeer

“I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.”

Bigs Used Force Watches Growing Up Growing Fans Mom My Mom Default Smurf

Author:Jayma Mays

“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

Years Problem Bigs Kids Night Parent Morning Growing Up Growing Cooking Cafes Days Of The Year Menagerie

Author:Anthony Minghella

“As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.”

Men Kind Reason Problem Growing Up Growing Streets Caught All Kinds Caught Up Gang

Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.”

Trying I Can Young Grows Growing Up

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.”

Want Feels Trying Heart Grows Growing Up My Heart Happenings Feel Good I Feel Good

Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan

“My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Team Fans Huge Steelers

Author:Deron Williams

“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”

“Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.”

Firsts Memories Chance Growing Up Taken Growing Brother Wave My Brother Shore Cheer Surfing Catching Sydney Best Memories

Author:Markus Zusak

“When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.”

Wanted Father House Growing Up Growing Talent Painting Paint Corners Painter Bored Knocking

Author:Markus Zusak

“My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.”

School Father Parent Growing Up Growing Mets Contemporary Professors Conductor Contemporary Music

Author:Sara Zarr

“I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.”

Grows Growing Up Profession

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.”

Whole Dream Reality Grows Growing Up Clean Cooks Milk Washing Fridges

Author:Michelle Ryan

“I was a Liverpool fan simply because my dad followed them. Unfortunately I wasn't born when the team had their golden era, but I enjoyed watching the likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman when I was growing up. When Liverpool won the Champions League last year, I went mad. I was shouting so loud I think I woke up the entire village where I live!”

Thinking Years Lasts Born Growing Up Growing Team Fans Dad Mad My Dad Likes Golden Enjoyed Eras Loud League Champion Village Last Year Shouting Liverpool Champions League Liverpool Fans

Author:Theo Walcott

“What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.”

Past Grows Growing Up Bvb

Author:Jinxx

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“I watched a lot of comedy growing up.”

Growing Up Comedy Growing

Author:Wanda Sykes

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