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“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”

Kind Able Stars Grows Growing Up Becoming Glad Massive Movie Star

“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

Thinking Trying Believe Looks Enough Guy Song Fighting Father Names Strong Grows Parent Boys Growing Up Stupid Track Cash Strong Enough Like A Boy

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.”

Heart Guy Culture Grows Growing Up Dad Gun My Dad Hunters Gun Culture

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.”

Thinking Wanted Guy Growing Up Growing Theater Als

Author:Charlie Day

“I just never want to completely grow up.”

Want Grows Growing Up

Author:Iris Apfel

“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.”

Firsts Kind Art School Growing Up Saws Growing High School Impact Contemporary Arrested Turning Points Contemporary Art Billboards Surrealist Impressionists Torres

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.”

Thinking Feels Littles Growing Up Growing Materials Terrible Greed Humble Shoulders Corporate Goods Household Emphasis Corporate Greed

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“I am so grateful to be a writer. I hope every child grows up and finds something to do that will seem important and that will seem precious. Happy living and, especially, happy playing.”

Children Important Seems Grows Growing Up Grateful So Grateful

Author:Cynthia Rylant

“Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.”

People May Made Play Roles Growing Up Growing Adults Our Family Unhappiness Rooted Habitual Havoc

Author:Lauren Mackler

“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.”

Trying Hard Kids Grows Growing Up Childhood Harder Happy Childhood Trying So Hard

Author:Lori Gottlieb

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.”

Years Challenges Growing Up Successful Growing Gender Disappear Barriers Credibility Demonstrating

Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?”

Knows Shows Growing Up Growing Television Planes Parallels Television Shows

Author:Jennifer Garner

“I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.”

Wanted Grows Growing Up Horse

Author:Clare Balding

“Crime is a job. Sex is a job. Growing up is a job. School is a job. Going to parties is a job. Religion is a job. Being creative is a job”

School Jobs Sex Party Creative Growing Up Growing Crime Be Creative

Author:David Byrne

“Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.”

Persons Happens Kids Opportunity Grows Creative Growing Up Adults Awful Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Judy Blume

“The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"”

Way Want Children Grows Growing Up Adults Our Children Your Children Right Way

Author:Brené Brown

“In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.”

Knows Kind Simple Growing Up Growing Cooking Cooks Weekend Pacific Seattle Barbecue Pacific Northwest

Author:Mario Batali

“I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.”

Should Grows Growing Up Models Drawing Runway

Author:Theophilus London

“Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!”

Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Joyous

Author:Theophilus London

“Now it is the blood of Jesus which saves, and it is the same blood which cleanses and sanctifies; and as we had to come lo Jesus to be plunged into the fountain, so we have to abide in Jesus by fellowship, to grow up into Christlikeness.”

Jesus Grows Growing Up Blood Fountain Fellowship Sanctify Blood Of Jesus Christlikeness

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.”

“What the color is, who the daddy be, who the mama is don’t mean nothin’. We family, carin’ for each other. Family make us strong in times of trouble. We all stick together, help each other out. That the real meanin’ of family. When you grow up, you take that family feelin’ with you.”

Mean Real Helping Together Strong Grows Growing Up Trouble Color Sticks Daddy Mama Helping Each Other Times Of Trouble

Book:The Kitchen House: A Novel

Source: The Kitchen House: A Novel

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.”

Waiting Growing Up Growing Youth Flower Thanks Grandfather Mistress My Grandfather Proper Time

Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?”

Growing Up Growing Despair

Book:The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

Source: The Collected Sermons of William Sloane Coffin: The Riverside Years

“I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need to reach those young explorers and bring them with us on the great adventure of discovery and innovation.”

World Want Needs Children Dream Young Grows Growing Up Adventure Discovery Innovation Better Place Explorers Great Adventure Mit

Author:Susan Hockfield

“Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.”

People Country Able Bits Talking Situation Growing Up Growing Meetings Developed Country

Author:Bill Gates

“The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.”

Want Should Grows Growing Up

Author:Craig Stone

“I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.”

Writing Book Kids Stars Grows Growing Up Tvs Meaningful Novelists Movie Star

Author:Bill Vaughan

“A woman growing up under American ideas of liberty in government and religion, having never blushed behind a Turkish mask, nor pressed her feet in Chinese shoes, cannot brook any disabilities based on sex alone, without a deep feeling of antagonism with the power that creates it.”

Ideas Feelings Government Sex Behinds Liberty Growing Up Growing Feet Shoes Chinese Mask Disability Brooks Turkish Antagonism Deep Feeling

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.”

Life Looks Children Littles Bigs Seems Able Grows Boys Gone Growing Up Strange Wind Cold Married Landscape Over It Retirement Retiring Being Married Procession Cold Wind

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”

Grows Growing Up Vacuums

Author:Asne Seierstad

“I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that while I'm writing. But I think that most New Yorkers would object to calling me a New Yorker. I didn't grow up here.”

Thinking Feels Writing Grows Growing Up New York Objects Calling New Yorkers

Author:Sloane Crosley

“When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.”

Thinking Men Kids Grows Growing Up Forty Old Man

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Even when I'm old and grey I'll probably be cruising around and bunny-hopping and stuff. In the words of the Descendents, "I don't want to grow up."”

Want Grows Stuff Growing Up Grey Bunnies Hopping

Author:Matt Skiba

“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”

Knows Years Mean Mother Growing Up Growing Fans Listening Invention Frank Arkansas Zappa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.”

Important Care Jobs Laughing Growing Up Growing Important Things Our Family Decent

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.”

Want Father Grows Growing Up Wife Taught Great Things Want Me

Author:Giovanna Cau

“Traditionally, I have no right to talk about race. I'm white; I didn't grow up in an all-black neighborhood. But the license I see for myself is I'm a member of the world.”

World Grows Black White Race Growing Up Members Neighborhood License All Black

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.”

Knows Wonder Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Definite Standing Out Nancy Amelia Wonder Woman Nancy Drew

Author:Keri Russell

“Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.”

Bigs Growing Up Growing Funeral

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”

World Trying Hard Enough Beautiful Challenges Growing Up Growing Keys I've Learned Good Enough Conventional Something Beautiful Wanting More Trying Too Hard

Author:Jenny Hval

“I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.”

People Grows Deals Growing Up Growing Individuality Variety Individualistic

Author:Bill Reid

“You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.”

Trying Body Religion Grows Growing Up Symbols Visuals Imagery

Author:Robert Gober

“All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.”

People Knows Mind May Stills Whole Running Film Grows Growing Up Generations All Things Stores Who I Am Video Take Time Cables Dichotomy

Author:Robby Benson

“There’s a different flavor to children’s literature you read after you grow up than there was reading it as a child. Things that were sweet as a child become bitter once you grow up.”

Children Different Reading Literature Grows Growing Up Sweet Bitter Flavor Children's Literature

Author:Mizuki Nomura

“I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.”

World Next Speak Social Growing Up Growing Generations Grew Grew Up Digital Next Generation Speak English Digital World

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.”

States School Growing Up Growing Talent

Author:James Green

“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”

People Knows Different States Stories Poor Growing Up Growing West Southern Virginia Great Depression West Virginia

Author:James Green

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