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“Growing up in a family that listened to almost nothing but classical music had its effects, as well. "California Über Alles," the first Dead Kennedys single, was inspired musically more by Japanese Kabuki than anything else.”

Firsts Wells Growing Up Growing Effects Inspired California Classical Music

Author:Jello Biafra

“My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.”

Firsts Growing Up Growing Seeing Pairs Pants Mama Just Live

Author:Dolly Parton

“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.”

World Years Firsts Wanted Lasts Song Steps Growing Up Focus Growing Materials Theater Inspired Musical First Steps Steps Forward Musical Theater

Author:Josh Groban

“In my country, families are raised as though they are one. Although I am from the Dinka tribe, my parents didn't raise us as the Dinka tribe. They raised us as the Wek family, in the way they believed their children should grow up. So when you leave, the first thing you think is the ones you left behind. It's natural to help them in any way you can. I found a way to support myself rather than asking my Mum to give me money. I would work before school and send money back to pay for their rent and food.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Firsts Children Country Helping School Found Left Grows Parent Natural Pay Behinds Support Growing Up Give Me Asking Raises Raised Mum Tribes Left Behind

Author:Alek Wek

“Growing up in the 80's, I think a lot of us saw things that were "new," an experience we don't get too much of these days. We saw things that were never done before. When Star Wars first came out, no movie before that had ever looked that way.”

Thinking Way Firsts War Done Stars Growing Up Saws Too Much Growing These Days

Author:Gabriel Campisi

“I went to this boy's choir school when I was growing up, and I think that the first time that I consciously started making music was when this one kid joined our class. He was an amazing pianist and would come up with all these ideas. I've always had a really competitive side, so I saw him doing that, and was like, "I have to try writing songs as well."”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Wells Ideas Kids School Song Sides Class Boys Growing Up Saws Growing First Time Come Up Writing Songs Choir Pianist

Author:St. Lucia

“I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.”

World Want Firsts Grows Enjoy Growing Up Fans Music Is Changing The World

Author:ASAP Rocky

“It's funny because growing up, when Ali G first burst off the screen, it was something that I was probably too young to be watching, but I absolutely loved it.”

Firsts Young Growing Up Growing Screens

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

“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.”

“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

“Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.”

Firsts America Growing Up Growing Sky England Impression Hopeful Sarcasm Grey Cheerful First Impression Grey Skies

Author:Stanley Donwood

“I was looking for a last name that was a first name. Growing up, I knew a kid who was the most obnoxious kid I ever knew, and his last name was Herman.”

Firsts Kids Lasts Names Growing Up Growing Obnoxious

Author:Paul Reubens

“As a kid growing up, the most simple things would make me so, so excited. I remember the first time my dad got a let-out couch; you could sleep in it like a bed and my sister and I just thought that was so magical.”

Firsts Kids Remember Sleep Simple Growing Up Growing Dad Bed First Time My Dad Excited My Sister Couches Simple Things Kids Growing Up

Author:Keke Palmer

“Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.”

Years Firsts Shows Growing Up Saws Growing Obsessed

Author:Matthew Healy

“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.”

“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.”

Writing Firsts Wells Art Reality Young Novel Growing Up Growing College India Filled Trippy

Author:Karan Bajaj

“The hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome is probably my first steps into adulthood: paying rent, groceries, cooking, taxes. I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.”

Firsts Stills Kids Wish Grows Steps Growing Up Taxes Overcoming Cooking Obstacles Hardest Anxious First Steps Adulthood Groceries Paying Rent

Author:Dillon Lane

“I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.”

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Author:Annie Wersching

“I just grew up with it [The Simpsons]. The first season came on when I was 5, 6 years old, and the show evolved as I was growing up and got funnier and funnier and, by the time I was in 12th grade, they were at their funniest.”

Years Firsts Shows Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Seasons Grades

Author:Eric Andre

“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.”

“I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.”

“I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some of my talents - growing up playing piano, and my operatic voice led me to All-State in my first, and only, year of singing - but I didn't yet know all of my capacities. My parents felt helpless, as they knew nothing about this world and couldn't help me in any way except through pure love.”

“When you first start off, I know singers who have only been in the business just a short amount of time, and they've already written their autobiography. I didn't want to write it too soon. I wanted to live a while and write about things that I felt were important to me - growing up in Wales, and the characters that I met and listened to.”

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Author:Tom Jones

“I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.”

Years Firsts Stills Remember Guy Rooms Growing Up Growing Week Masters Honor Dinner Champion My Time Just Being Thrill Highlights Augusta

Author:Arnold Palmer

“Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who are very committed to this concept. My grandfather's first name was Israel and he thought it was his country. In my own sense of this issue as an American Jew, I have been on both sides of this. At this point I think it is very important for there to be separation of religion and state. It's not good for Jews. It's not good for Muslims. It's not good for Christians. The marriage of state and religion is inherently problematic.”

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