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“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

Ifs Years Made Stills Shows Grows Growing Up Taken Streets Car Terrible Spending Parks Jerry Spotlight Squad

Author:Steve Wilkos

“Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.”

Shows Parent Growing Up Growing Python Monty

Author:Mathew Baynton

“One of my best friends growing up was gay. ... It’s never been an issue for me. ... I think there was a time in my life, probably in college, that I wished every guy was gay, because it just meant more women for me! ‘I don’t know why you guys have a problem with this thing! I think it’d be great! I wish everyone was gay!’ ... That’s always the way I thought about it. ... I have no issue with it. If I have to suffer through marriage, why shouldn’t they?”

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Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“I'm terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It's something that wakes me up at night.”

Night Steps Growing Up Growing Adults Terrified

Author:Lorde

“If I ever grow up, I don't want to be around for it.”

Ifs Want Grows Growing Up

Author:Sebastian Bach

“I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.”

Bigs Wanted Growing Up Growing Fans Chests Tattoo Collages

Author:Kevin Durant

“I have always believed in the magic of childhood and think that if you get your life right that magic should never end. I feel that if adults cannot enjoy a children’s book properly there is something wrong with either the book or the adult reading it. This of course, is just a smart way of saying I don't want to grow up.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Should Children Book Ends Courses Reading Grows Enjoy Growing Up Magic Childhood Smart Adults Always Believe Children's Books Magic Of Childhood

Author:Colin Thompson

“I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is. You ask a lot of kids today what they want to be when they grow up, and they say, 'I want to be famous.' You ask them, 'For what reason?' and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong - in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.”

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Author:Banksy

“I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.”

Want America Deals Class Growing Up Growing Stress Core Defined Working Class

Author:Geoff Dyer

“For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.”

People Ifs Different Real Ends States Social Grows Simple Growing Up Program Decline Get Real Worldview Demographics Social Programs

Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

“I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.”

Has Beens Hard Grows Growing Up

Author:Joss Stone

“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

People Thinking Firsts Believe Age Artist Growing Up Records Growing Youth Becoming Speech Responsible Obligation Amendments Freedom Of Speech Assured First Amendment

Author:Ja Rule

“I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.”

Perfect Mistake Growing Up Growing Making Mistakes Robots Not Perfect I Make Mistakes I'm Not Perfect

Author:Justin Bieber

“You're never too old to grow up.”

Grows Growing Up

Book:Savages

Source: Savages

“When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.”

Should Grows Growing Up Tests Journalist Grades

Author:Megyn Kelly

“Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.”

World Ends Growing Up Taken Growing Devil Nightmare End Of The World

Author:Marilyn Manson

“You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.”

People Might Earth Grows Sun Growing Up Hair Holes Evolve Paradox Smarter Find Me Spray Manson

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.”

Grows Growing Up Repeats

Author:Dawn French

“Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.”

Firsts Persons I Can Remember Natural Growing Up Growing Inspire Taught Singing Ears Intrigue First Person

Author:Elliott Yamin

“Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.”

Running School Growing Up Growing Anarchy Old Fashioned Nun Bengali

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.”

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Author:Charlotte Arnold

“I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.”

Kind Growing Up Growing Modeling Sears

Author:Charlotte Arnold

“When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.”

Want Feels Growing Up Growing

Author:Reese Hoffa

“As a kid growing up in Southern California, I was a frequent visitor to the Disneyland and developed a deep love of the magic and wonder of Disney.”

Kids Wonder Growing Up Growing Magic California Southern Deep Love Visitors Disneyland Kids Growing Up Southern California

Author:Kidada Jones

“Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.”

Children Memories Growing Up Growing Childhood Connected Disneyland Childhood Memories Poland

Author:Abel Korzeniowski

“I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.”

Stills Home Growing Up Growing Texas

Author:Candace Kita

“I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.”

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Author:Yunjin Kim

“I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.”

Ifs Knows Feels Has Beens Energy Laughing Gone Growing Up Growing Cry Theater Accepted Killers Appreciated Psychotic

Author:Faith Prince

“My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.”

People Growing Up Growing My Favorite Admire Wizards

Author:Rainey Qualley

“I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.”

Different Sports Challenges Walks Growing Up Growing Shoes Different Things

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.”

People Different Happens Bits Growing Up Growing Succeed Tools Incredibles Privilege Russia Things Happen Realising Looking Back Make Things Happen Different Life

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.”

Home Animal Growing Up Growing Independent Bother

Author:Janet Jackson

“A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.”

People Children Stills Age Young Opportunity Grows Growing Up Silly Young Age Silly Things

Author:Janet Jackson

“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.”

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Author:Bailey Chase

“When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?”

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Author:Paul Waldman

“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.”

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Author:Kathryn Lasky

“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.”

Way Children States Grows Difficult Growing Up Lucky University Farmers Tenants

Author:James Hansen

“My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces.”

Wanted Grows Parent Space Growing Up Horse Open Spaces

Author:Schuyler Fisk

“First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to us. In my house, John Belushi was king. I didn't grow up when he was - I was born in '78 - the reruns of Belushi in 'Animal House,' and knowing he was at Second City, he was viewed as a king in my house.”

Firsts Stills Wanted House Fun Grows Born Animal Cities Growing Up Knowing Growing Stage Kings Reruns Second City

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“Growing up, I always wanted to sing.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing

Author:Damian McGinty

“Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.”

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Author:Scott Putesky

“My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”

Firsts Book Reason Kids Hate Culture Felt Audience Growing Up Growing Shadow Hollywood British Materialism Affected Cult Love Hate

Author:Lauren Greenfield

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

People Jobs Mother Parent Education Growing Up Growing Daughter India China Dinner My Daughter Starving Homework China And India World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.”

People Years Different Grows Realizing Growing Up Twenties Affinity

Author:Joseph Jarman

“I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.”

Trying Play Song Growing Up Growing Band Guitar Piano

Author:Page McConnell

“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.”

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Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.”

Country Bigs Film Growing Up Growing Drama Landscape Vastness American Film

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.”

Looks Book Passion Growing Up Growing Comic Comic Book

Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!”

Men Spirit Known Growing Up Successful Growing Brother Optimism Twins Youthfulness Successful Man Twin Brother

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.”

Mother Grows Growing Up Generations Daughter Raises Pledge Glowing Mother And Daughter

Book:Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

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