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“Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.”

Two Use Bigs Growing Up Growing Big Things Tarantino Scorsese

Author:Ed Speleers

“My first thought about acting, growing up here in New York, was theater, and I feel like I need to force myself to go get my ass kicked in a rehearsal room and do one of those plays at some point.”

Needs Feels Firsts Play Force Rooms Acting Growing Up Growing New York Theater Ass Rehearsal

Author:Paul Dano

“When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.”

Want Looks Country Grows Growing Up Racism Daughter Who We Are My Daughter Sexism Homophobia Jingoism

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“I think Jennifer Lawrence is that inside of herself. As long as I've known her she's been both 10 years old and 50 years old. And we've watched her grow up since she walked on "Silver Linings Playbook" as a 20-year-old and had not been - "Hunger Games" had not come out. And I've watched her have to take on and deal with a great deal of attention and resources and people.”

People Thinking Years Long Games Grows Deals Attention Known Growing Up Resources Hunger Silver Jennifer Playbooks

Author:David O. Russell

“You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.”

Growing Up Growing Fans Championship Lakers

Author:Akeem Ayers

“I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.”

Way Games Growing Up Growing Fans My Favorite Excited Packers Packer Fans

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“I reckon that growing up, listening to so much different music, I think over time I just kind of sucked it all in and it probably comes back out through my music.”

Thinking Kind Different Growing Up Growing Listening Different Music

Author:Courtney Barnett

“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.”

Kind Home Kids Wanted Goal White Growing Up Growing Generations Broken Listening Areas Hip Hop Hips Hops Oakland Broken Homes

Author:Moshe Kasher

“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."”

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Author:Moshe Kasher

“In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard, and we could listen to that at full volume without fear of penalty, because my mom couldn't hear that either. I wasn't a huge comedy fan growing up, but I definitely listened to Andrew Dice Clay a lot.”

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Author:Moshe Kasher

“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.”

Thinking Wells Different Kids Grows Growing Up Wife Shapes Exciting Grandkids

Author:Guy Branum

“I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.”

Thinking Grows Growing Up About Yourself

Author:V V Brown

“My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.”

Home Jobs Term Growing Up Growing Mom Busy My Mom Good Job Professional Life Home Life

Author:Condola Rashad

“I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.”

Thinking Self Growing Up Growing Self Esteem Adults Esteem Joie De Vivre

Author:Geena Davis

“It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.”

Ifs Persons Country America Grows Black Born White Poverty Growing Up Police Educational African American Incidents Cheaper Black Person Caucasian

Author:Warren Ballentine

“I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Children Different Grows Growing Up If You Believe Different Faiths

Author:Susan Jacoby

“There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.”

Book Country States Kids Culture Growing Up Growing Immigrants Other Cultures

Author:Mitali Perkins

“I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.”

Two Play Age Wanted Careers Growing Up Growing Basketball Two Things Nba Businessman Famous Basketball Best Basketball

Author:Magic Johnson

“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.”

“My first big career purchase when I was, like, 17 was a Louis Vuitton laptop bag. Now, seeing the exhibit [Louis Vuitton's "Series 3" exhibition in London], it's exciting because I feel like I kind of know it. It's weird - it's almost like something you grow up with and you just know a little bit about it. Now that I'm immersed in it, it's kind of insane.”

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Author:Selena Gomez

“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.”

“didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.”

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Author:Josh Earnest

“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.”

People Looks Made Remember Born Talking Growing Up Growing Mom Daughter Democrat My Mom Impression Grandmother My Grandmother Like Her Syndromes Younger Sister Down Syndrome

Author:Josh Earnest

“I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.”

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Author:Steve Zissis

“When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.”

People Growing Up Fire Growing Imagine Rivers Leaving Catching Cleveland Catching On

Author:Celeste Ng

“I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.”

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Author:Stephanie Miller

“Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.”

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Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.”

Ifs Want Home Kids Father Challenges Growing Up Growing Identity

Author:Benjamin Watson

“My father actually lived next door to Hobie Alter [creator of the Hobie catamarans]. So growing up, we had prototypes and experimental things that we could play with; it was just fabulous. I actually bought my first surfboard in junior high. I saved my money.”

Firsts Play Next Father Growing Up Growing Doors Creator Saved Fabulous Juniors Junior High Prototype

Author:Bo Derek

“I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.”

Thinking Young Attention Boys Growing Up Growing Particular Picks Paid Girlfriend Young Women My Girlfriend

Author:Bo Derek

“When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.”

Ifs Hurt Boys Growing Up Four Growing Okay Lots Of Money Specialists Got Hurt

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.”

Giving Self Philosophy Problem Social Grows Teach Growing Up Environment Accounts Starting Philosopher Critical Reasoning Crude Starting Point Social Environment

Author:Philip Kitcher

“I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League].”

Shows Grows Growing Up Football League

Author:Katie Aselton

“Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.”

Three Growing Up Growing Towns Catholic Layers Small Town Repression Midwest Growing Up In A Small Town

Author:Paul Rust

“I can imagine that if you're a kid growing up somewhere, where you might be gay or you think you're gay, but you don't know who else would be ... you become very closeted.”

Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Might Would Be Kids Growing Up Growing Imagine Gay Be You Imagine That Kids Growing Up

Author:Rib Hillis

“I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.”

World Want Years Grows Growing Up Shame Judged Twins Holding Back Being Judged

Author:Rib Hillis

“A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Choices Grows Growing Up Picks

Author:Joy Behar

“I have always championed the concept of administrators of color. My mother worked in advertising, and growing up, I saw my mother's community of women working behind the scenes. I had the opportunity from a young age to know that I could do this work.”

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Author:Lisa Lucas

“I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".”

Thinking Looks School Remember Growing Up Growing High School Fats Mess Pounds Pictures Of Myself

Author:Viola Davis

“Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was 16 and 18. One of them crossed through the Mississippi and Baton Rouge and Mobile, Alabama, and another went all the way to Europe. On the last trip, I stayed in Europe for one year with $1,000, working everywhere I could, doing everything. Those years shaped me a lot and taught me the value of exploring different things.”

“I think even though things are changing a bit, we still kind of tend to grow up with girls being like, 'Don't be too loud, don't be too rude, don't be too naughty,' or whatever, to act a certain way.”

Thinking Way Kind Stills Certain Girl Grows Bits Growing Up Loud Rude Naughty

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.”

Knows Grows Growing Up Dad My Dad Heritage

Author:Keiynan Lonsdale

“I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.”

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Author:Sue Tompkins

“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.”

“Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.”

Stuff Effort Growing Up Growing 80s Nerd

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me.”

I Can Play School Used Games Memories Growing Up Too Much Growing Fronts Sitting Chess Intense Boards Ruined Tournaments

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.”

Remember Actors Grows Growing Up

Author:Jodie Foster

“I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.”

Whole Father Growing Up Growing Daughter Whole Life Shooting Fishing Hunting Buddy Hunting And Fishing

Author:Amber Heard

“I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.”

Jobs Growing Up Growing Goodness Summer Saved Lifeguard

Author:Amber Heard

“I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.”

Said Felt Born Growing Up Growing Connections Accidents Japan

Author:Rei Kawakubo

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