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“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”

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Author:Oscar Nunez

“Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.”

People Thinking Way Bigs Grows Watches Growing Up Four

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.”

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Author:Joey Ramone

“To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.”

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Author:Sonja Sohn

“The dance world was a big part of my growing up.”

World Bigs Growing Up Growing

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.”

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Author:Ashlee Simpson

“The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.”

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Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.”

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Author:Jayma Mays

“The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“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.”

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Author:Kevin Durant

“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.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”

“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.”

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Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

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

Bigs Growing Up Growing Funeral

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.”

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Author:Mordecai Richler

“I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small a town to compete with some of the guys that competed in a higher level growing up. And that kind of drove me through college and drove me in the minor leagues, because I got to face all those big 5- A [school district] guys in the minors.”

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Author:Roy Oswalt

“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.”

Has Beens Bigs Interest Fiction Fantasy Growing Up Growing Fans Science Fiction Could Have Been

Author:Brandon Routh

“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 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

“I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.”

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Author:Alan Ritchson

“My dad hasn't said much about his college days. Oh, a few times, he might start telling stories. And I've seen some highlight film of him from college. I remember thinking he looked really small. Which is funny, because growing up, I thought he was a pretty big guy.”

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Author:Andrew Luck

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”

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Author:Andy Partridge

“Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, The Wonderful World of Disney.”

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Author:Scott Bakula

“My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.”

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Author:Brenda Song

“I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.”

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Author:Willie Geist

“I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.”

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Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.”

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Author:Danielle Panabaker

“Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.”

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Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“I grew up in a really rural town, Stratford, Ontario, with 30,000 people. There's a big festival thrown in the town. A lot of people travel from all over the world to see it, and growing up, I actually used to busk on the street. I'd play my guitar, sing, and people would throw money in the case.”

People World Play Bigs Used Cases Growing Up Growing Streets Grew Grew Up Towns Guitar Thrown Festivals Ontario

Author:Justin Bieber

“I listened to a lot of Michael Jackson growing up. A lot of Boyz II Men. I loved Mariah Carey. Just big vocalists. I was always that kid who just wore whatever and did whatever.”

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Author:Justin Bieber

“Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.”

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Author:Steven Morrissey

“I think I felt like a regular kid. Growing up in New York, I never felt I was a big deal.”

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Author:Katharine Weymouth

“It's a bittersweet feeling because this [filming in Chronicles of Narnia] has been a part of my life for six years - from the age of 15 to 21. For anybody that's a big growing up phase, especially in the unique experience of Narnia. But I feel honoured to have been a part of it but the tools I learned from Narnia I'm now taking forward to my next project.”

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Author:Skandar Keynes

“Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day.”

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Author:Tom Hanks

“They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.”

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Author:Blake Griffin

“When I got my start, I kind of got my big break with The Princess Diaries and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: "Did you always want to be a princess growing up?" And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman. And I think a lot of women feel that way. And the fact that I am actually her is such a dream come true. It's such a pinch me moment. And the fact that I am Catwoman in Chris Nolan's Gotham to Christian Bale's Batman is unbelievably cool.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“We face challenges every day both big and small. But regardless we are always ready for any obstacle, and we have each other to stay grounded, grow together and for comfort. Our memories growing up are what built our foundation. I think we are proof to never give up. None of us are perfect, and we're okay with making fun of our flaws.”

“When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.”

Way Bigs Growing Up Growing Including Stigma

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Of course, growing up, I was a big fan of rap so that was something that I got into. I was a fan of a lot of artists. You can be a fan, but at the same time, you gotta carve your own swagger and carve out your own style.”

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Author:Kirko Bangz

“As a kid I was into horror. I loved horror. Horror was huge. I was always into horror. Goosebumps for me was massive growing up. Horror for me was always a big thing.”

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Author:Jamie Campbell Bower

“I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.”

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Author:Rebecca Ferguson

“I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'”

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Author:Chris Carter

“I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.”

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Author:Alex Borstein

“Growing up, the ukulele was always a respected instrument. It's a big part of our culture. It wasn't until I started traveling outside of Hawaii that I realized people didn't really consider the ukulele to be a real instrument.”

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Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.”

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Author:Mia Tyler

“They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.”

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Author:Clay Guida

“There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.”

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Author:Mardy Grothe

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