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“This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women. This movie addresses that in a very appropriate and sincere way.”

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Author:Amber Tamblyn

“I started a modeling agency and I had it for about five and a half years and it was the same time I was actually working with the WWE and doing SmackDown. It was really the same principles; because me growing up I didn't have the support, I wasn't told, yes you can do that; you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.”

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Author:Amy Weber

“I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.”

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Author:Brandon Routh

“There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.”

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Author:Brandon Routh

“I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.”

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Author:Emmy Rossum

“I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I come from a small county outside of Washington DC called PG County, and me, my mom, my brother, we moved so many different places growing up. And it felt like a box. It felt like there was no getting out.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'”

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Author:Mike Babcock

“When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.”

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Author:Anthony Holden

“I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.”

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Author:Bob Schieffer

“I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.”

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Author:David Guterson

“Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.”

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Author:Roger Fouts

“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I don't ever want to grow up. I guess I'm like Peter Pan. Grown-ups have problems. I want to stay happy.”

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Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“If you grow up normal, you'll only be normal.”

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Author:Michelle Wie

“It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.”

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Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Growing up, I realized that fame is not what you think it is. It's a little bizarre. You have to learn how to cope with that and figure out who you are.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.”

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Author:Quentin Dupieux

“I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.”

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Author:Kristen Bell

“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“Hip hop - it's an art form but it's a culture as well. You grow up in the culture and you never leave it. It's a style of dress; it's a way of thought. I always grew up in the culture, and it was part of who I was and I carried it into every world I was in.”

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Author:LeCrae

“When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.”

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Author:Lana Del Rey

“One of the best feelings I had growing up was being completely exhausted at the end of the day after playing outside all day.”

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Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“It's like losing a son because I loved Michael and Michael loved me. But you know, as when people grow up and they make their own decisions and they move forward, there's a distance, and I think that Michael in some cases might have gone too far with some of the things he was doing.”

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Author:Berry Gordy

“I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.”

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Author:Mort Crim

“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.”

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Author:Ice T

“You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.”

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Author:Virginia Madsen

“Since Catherine [Zeta-Jones] and I got together, I've cut back dramatically. My priorities changed, and I still love acting and all that, but not as much as I love watching my two kids grow up.”

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Author:Michael Douglas

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

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Author:Terry Gross

“I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.”

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Author:Phil Robertson

“People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.”

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Author:Jason Katims

“The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.”

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Author:Nathan Fillion

“Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.”

“One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, and behaving like boys.”

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Author:Dennis Rainey

“I played football growing up in junior high and high school.”

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Author:Ryan Merriman

“Growing up, I wasnt sure about acting, but I knew I wanted to be part of the movie industry.”

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Author:Daniella Alonso

“I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.”

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Author:Michael Steger

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

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Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether its in film, TV or theatre. My dream roles already been taken by Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice. Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.”

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Author:Roxanne McKee

“Rugrats was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.”

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Author:Michael Angarano

“Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.”

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Author:Kerry Condon

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