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“Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.”

People World Believe Wanted Opportunity Acting Growing Up Growing Treats Who You Are Opportunity To Change

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.”

Knows Needs Important Guy Grows Know How Growing Up Car Woods Spectators

Author:Hilarie Burton

“I grew up in the United Methodist Church, and church was always a very big part of my growing up.”

Bigs Church United Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Methodists

Author:Hilarie Burton

“With three boys in the house, my mother was always on us when growing up about keeping our faces clean, washing behind our ears, and brushing our teeth. So I still take my morning routine seriously.”

Stills Faces Mother Three House Behinds Boys Morning Growing Up Growing Ears Clean Teeth Routine Washing Brushing Morning Routines

Author:Cam Newton

“Children need to grow up and make their own decisions - how they want to pierce their bodies or do whatever they need to.”

Want Needs Children Body Grows Decision Growing Up Pierce

Author:Kim Basinger

“In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Firsts Children Country Helping School Found Left Grows Parent Natural Pay Behinds Support Growing Up Give Me Asking Raises Raised Mum Tribes Left Behind

Author:Alek Wek

“I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.”

Stars Watches Growing Up Growing Tvs Grew Dad Grew Up Originals My Dad Oregon Original Star Trek

Author:Katee Sackhoff

“The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine, and sympathetic rain. On the other hand, the rock is often broken through exposure to nature and weathering. Life is a strong power to grow in tenderness; this fact may be considered as having a close relation with human life. At the same time tenderness has sometimes stronger power against stiffness or hardening due to extreme strain.”

“When you're a little kid, growing up, most of us know what's right and wrong. Our parents teach us that discipline.”

Knows Littles Kids Parent Teach Growing Up Growing Discipline Little Kid Kids Growing Up

Author:Robert Knepper

“I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Princess Brides Princess Bride

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.”

Kind Play Wanted Growing Up Growing Brother Opposites Girlfriend My Brother Rough My Girlfriend Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Candis Cayne

“I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.”

Giving Feels Book Bigs Grows Felt Moral Growing Up Fans Concepts Comic Sci Fi Comic Book Superhero Dilemma Moral Dilemma

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Nothing is more important than restoring a high degree of autonomy to educational experiences so that those who grow up in this society and troubled world have the best available tools to grasp the challenges that imperil our national and human future.”

World Humans Important Grows Challenges Growing Up Degrees Tools Available Educational Autonomy This Society Restoring

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.”

Helping Next Emotion Growing Up Growing Doors Streets Music Is Neighbor Next Door Neighbors

Author:Tyler Perry

“As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.”

“I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.”

World Black White Growing Up Focus Growing Taught Window Memoir Aliens Appropriate Length Chicago Sixty Privileged Skirts Gloves Respectability

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.”

Way Feels Kind Sometimes Turns Grows Bits Behinds Growing Up Settling Score Looking Back Autobiography Let It Go Behind You

Author:Marc Almond

“When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.”

Years Christian Growing Up Growing Serious Ten Atheist Eight Agnostic

Author:Moby

“When I was growing up, I fetishised New York City. It was the land of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, it was where Leonard Cohen wrote 'Chelsea Hotel', it was CBGBs and all the punk rock clubs. Artists and musicians lived there, and it was cheap and dangerous.”

Artist Cities Growing Up Growing Land Rocks Dangerous New York Musician Clubs Hotel New York City Punk Punk Rock Velvet Reeds Chelsea Velvet Underground Cbgb

Author:Moby

“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.”

People Thinking Needs Feels Should Light School Jobs Games Fun Hours Growing Up Growing Industry Video Brands Sat Niche After School Playing Video Games Friends Growing Up

Author:Shawne Merriman

“You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.”

Matter Grows Community Leader Growing Up Influence Grew Periods Grew Up Loyalty Neighborhood

Author:Kendrick Lamar

“Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends.”

Different Culture Black Interesting Cities Growing Up Growing Middle Eastern Jersey Different Cultures Jersey City

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.”

Important Morning Growing Up Growing News Singing Radio Hearing Dancer Coast Tap Dancers Durban

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.”

Interesting Growing Up Issues Growing South Extraordinary South Africa Multiculturalism Very Interesting

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.”

Writing Wells Long Ideas Practice Growing Up Growing Long Time No Idea Journal Writing Life

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.”

Feels Mind Body Age Growing Up Growing Conversation Bounds Your Body

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.”

Feels Growing Up Growing Very Cool

Author:Alice Lowe

“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.”

Thinking Reality Kids Young Race Growing Up Growing Middle Mixed Race

Author:Matt de la Pena

“We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.”

Reason Problem Deals Attention Brain Wonder Growing Up Growing Generations Development Becoming Quitting Reason Why Reports I Quit Shrinking Attention Span Brain Development

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.”

Ifs Littles Happens Kids Able Ability Wonder Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.”

“Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.”

Book Culture Growing Up Growing East Locals Pursue Landscape Native Native American Cowboy San Francisco Pioneers Spun Dizzy Up North

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.”

Kids Guy Song Grows Simple Growing Up Share Inspired Vices Vice Versa Family Guy

Author:Five for Fighting

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

Felt Imagination Church Growing Up Growing Mystery Tree Ocean Catholic Green Landscape Giants My Imagination Catholic Church Embedded Tropical Seamless

Author:Karen Russell

“I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.”

School Growing Up Growing High School

Author:Vanessa Ray

“I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.”

Country Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up My Family Camping Rvs

Author:Kirsten Lepore

“In college I wrote for the university newspaper, and I had several short stories published in small press. I think it's just been a natural progression of where to go with the imagination and not have to grow up.”

Thinking Stories Grows Imagination Natural Growing Up College Presses University Newspapers Short Story Progression

Author:Gabriel Campisi

“Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.”

Thinking Way Firsts War Done Stars Growing Up Saws Too Much Growing These Days

Author:Gabriel Campisi

“I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.”

Kind Long Done Growing Up Growing Scene Karate

Author:Suki Waterhouse

“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.”

Art Artist Growing Up Growing Becoming Circumstances Art Is Wealthy

Author:Kesh

“I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.”

Knows World Art Made Whole Home Decision Growing Up Growing Internet Whole World Gallery Art Galleries

Author:Kesh

“My point, though, is that if lines have indeed shifted, it's not so much that the younger generation just doesn't care, it's that we have ceded more and more of our public life over to the private sector. If you grow up with advertising at school, you have come of age in a sold-out world.”

Ifs World Care Age School Grows Lines Growing Up Generations Advertising Public Life Private Sector Younger Generation Sold Out

Author:Astra Taylor

“One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.”

People Mean Ideas Bigs Growing Up Growing Internet Raised Phones Myth Digital Apps Adept

Author:Astra Taylor

“I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.”

Thinking Church Memories Growing Up Growing Sunday Recalls

Author:M. Ward

“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.”

Wells Kind Doe Seems Song Courses Grows Growing Up Growing Century Listening Grew Grew Up England Obvious 21st Century Cuz Obvious Things Old Music

Author:George Ezra

“No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.”

Stills Hard Growing Up Growing Fans Huge Inspired Obsession Eleven

Author:Stacey King

“I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Persons Grows Felt Stuff Religious Powerful Growing Up Intrigued Religious Person

Author:Panda Bear

“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.”

“I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.”

Knows Kind School Reading Lost Sports Interest Growing Up Growing Grades Playing Sports

Author:John Brandon

“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Wells Ideas Kids School Song Sides Class Boys Growing Up Saws Growing First Time Come Up Writing Songs Choir Pianist

Author:St. Lucia

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