“As I was a kid, I had a bunch of musicians, they always told me that I should listen to all styles of music and try to play all styles and be authentic at it, if I can, because you never know who's gonna call you. This was coming from fellow horn players who would get the call to play with different types of people. Since I was a kid, that was just something I was always interested in.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldTryingI CanDifferentPlayKidsGrowing UpPlayerStyleTypeMusicianFellowsBunchHorns Author:Troy Andrews
“Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?” PeopleLooksChildrenSeemsAbleGrowsAcceptingGrowing UpNormalMy Children Author:Nancy Burson
“The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.” PeopleAbleGrowing UpComedyGrowingTypeStores Author:Pauly Shore
“As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.” PeopleKindShowsDreamKidsWantedGrowsMy OwnPovertyGrowing UpGave Up Author:Cristela Alonzo
“People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.” PeopleLongGrowsGrowing UpEnvironmentDangerLong TimeLondonBad ThingsExposedTime To Grow Up Author:Eliot Paulina Sumner
“The films that I loved growing up were the science fiction films from the late seventies and early eighties [films], which were more about the people and how they are affected by the environments that they are in. Whether they are sort of futuristic or alien of whatever they are; that was the science fiction that I loved. So that is what we tried to make, the sort of film that felt like those old films.” PeopleFilmFeltFictionGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLateScience FictionAliensAffectedSeventiesEightyFuturistic Author:Duncan Jones
“Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral.” PeopleMenKindActionFilmGrowing UpGrowingBlowBoringGood TimesOur ActionsEightyHaving A Good TimeSteamWorking ManAction Films Author:Quentin Tarantino
“My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.” PeopleWorldHas BeensStoriesFeelingsMightSchoolRememberLeftGrowsFeltParentChanceGrowing UpTownsMight Have BeenIntegratedLeft OutSt PatrickSt Patrick's Day Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsLittlesMightWantedSocialGrowsGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingPerspectiveFitConnectedOutsidersObjectivitySocial Environment Author:Moby
“I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me.” PeopleLittlesIdeasFeltHellGrowing UpGrowingBoringLittle ThingsBaptistsCarolina Author:David Sedaris
“I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.” PeopleIfsThinkingCountryGrowsViewsGrowing UpIdealistic Author:PJ Harvey
“I hope my music inspires people and I want to be a good role model for everybody, not just the girls but for the guys too. I want to show everybody that I didn't grow up in the spotlight like the Mickey Mouse Club to make it. That is important for kids to know.” PeopleKnowsWantImportantShowsKidsGuyGirlGrowsRolesGrowing UpInspireModelsClubsRole ModelsMiceSpotlightMickeyGood Role Models Author:Tonya Mitchell
“Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.” PeopleKidsParentBornGrowing UpGrowingFineUpsetWiring Author:Patton Oswalt
“Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.” PeopleWorldBelieveWantedOpportunityActingGrowing UpGrowingTreatsWho You AreOpportunity To Change Author:Josh Hutcherson
“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.” PeopleMeanIdeasBigsGrowing UpGrowingInternetRaisedPhonesMythDigitalAppsAdept Author:Astra Taylor
“I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanPersonsGrowsFeltStuffReligiousPowerfulGrowing UpIntriguedReligious Person Author:Panda Bear
“I met him when I was 18. We split up when I was 38. He saw me grow up too. He was a client, and also a friend. Such things are more common than people might think. This arrangement was not so different than many American relationships. That's why the laws against prostitution have got to go. They are totally unfair and mean.” PeopleThinkingMeanDifferentMightLawGrowsCommonGrowing UpSawsMetsSplitsClientsUnfairArrangementsProstitution Author:Annie Sprinkle
“Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.” PeopleWantYoungFunGrowing UpGrowingCrazyResponsibleHaving FunBeing ResponsibleBeing CrazyInvincibility Author:Rihanna
“I'm very lucky that I have people styling my hair and teaching me how to work with it, but it wasn't always like that. Growing up, I had extremely wavy and thick hair and that can be very overwhelming - you end up with the same ponytail every day.” PeopleEndsGrowing UpGrowingTeachingHairLuckyOverwhelmingThickPonytailsThick Hair Author:Crystal Renn
“Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.” PeopleThinkingWayYoungGrowsStruggleGrowing UpYoung WomenPushyNosey Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly." "She ugly." "He ugly." I hated it then, and I hate it now. I go past physical beauty; I tell people they have a beautiful spirit and that is something different.” PeopleDifferentPastBeautifulRememberSpiritHateGrowing UpGrowingI HateUglyHearingHatedPhysical Beauty Author:Jamel Shabazz
“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingHas BeensReasonSeemsSchoolYoungInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsInternetHigh SchoolDirectStructureMiserableTaoSimilarityBloggingNew GenerationYoung Writers Author:Marie Calloway
“After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsKindTodayYoungSocialGrowing UpGrowingFitPressureEmbraceSocial Pressure Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
“I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there's so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren't used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.” PeopleThinkingKindUsedGirlGrowsGrowing UpHugeCuteRejectionBackwardsBendingCute GirlBending Over Author:April Rose
“I think Jennifer Lawrence is that inside of herself. As long as I've known her she's been both 10 years old and 50 years old. And we've watched her grow up since she walked on "Silver Linings Playbook" as a 20-year-old and had not been - "Hunger Games" had not come out. And I've watched her have to take on and deal with a great deal of attention and resources and people.” PeopleThinkingYearsLongGamesGrowsDealsAttentionKnownGrowing UpResourcesHungerSilverJenniferPlaybooks Author:David O. Russell
“I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveChildrenDifferentGrowsGrowing UpIf You BelieveDifferent Faiths Author:Susan Jacoby
“My mom's younger sister was born with Down syndrome. I was close to my grandmother when I was growing up. I remember talking to my grandmother about politics, and she told me that she regularly voted for the Democrats because she knew that they were going to look out for people like her daughter. That made an impression on me, too.” PeopleLooksMadeRememberBornTalkingGrowing UpGrowingMomDaughterDemocratMy MomImpressionGrandmotherMy GrandmotherLike HerSyndromesYounger SisterDown Syndrome Author:Josh Earnest
“When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.” PeopleGrowing UpFireGrowingImagineRiversLeavingCatchingClevelandCatching On Author:Celeste Ng
“I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.” PeopleThinkingWayKindDifferentPlayKidsChurchGrowing UpGrowingFiguresListeningGrewWorshipGrew UpJazzGuitarBackgroundsPlentyOddDifferent ThingsUniquenessNerdAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Michael Gungor
“I wanted to give people a glimpse of my lifestyle and into the lifestyle of me and all my friends and all the people that I know. It's basically just coming up and going up. It's about growing up, elevating, chilling and vibing. And smoking. I wanted to make a piece of art that you could put on while you are hot boxing your car and riding around with your friends.” PeopleKnowsGivingArtWantedGrowing UpPiecesGrowingCarMy FriendsHotLifestyleBoxingSmokingRidingGlimpseChillElevating Author:Young De
“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.” PeopleThinkingMayChildrenTurnsGrowsParentDarkGrowing UpColorDrugMessagesDressesSuicideMajorityAlcoholCommitEtcDrugs And AlcoholDark Colors Author:Bernie Siegel
“Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.” PeopleKnowsKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingTests Author:Johnny Marr
“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.” PeopleWayGrowsStuffHoursHalfGrowing UpNew YorkGrewBandGrew UpTownsOne WayBetter PlaceSmall TownTouringNazareth Author:Daughn Gibson
“You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else?” PeopleLooksMeanEarthGrowsParentGrowing UpAll ThingsHorrificArranged Marriage Author:Sheena Iyengar
“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.” PeopleMenBelieveTwoYoungUsedGrowsViewsAcceptingPracticeGrowing UpFrontsBrotherDutyMirrorsLibraryErasYoung ManNeighborhoodBedroomUnclesMeekBabaDressersTwo Brothers Author:Joe Biden
“People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.” PeopleWorldGrowing UpGrowingIdealsErasThemeLinks80sConfusing Author:Sam de Jong
“My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.” PeopleParentGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingMiddleMaterialsMetsMovedRaisedTexasWowFloridaMonkWeirdo Author:Taraka Larson
“One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described.” PeopleIfsWantYearsChildrenCountrySometimesWantedYoungTurnsGirlGrowsAnswersMillionsGrowing UpBabyOne DayConcernedIntelligentCriminalsAbortionSincerelyUnlovedUnmarriedYoung Ladies Author:Ronald Reagan
“I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.” PeopleThinkingSometimesYoungGrowing UpGrowingImaginePersonalityIndustryObjectivesAnnoyingEntertainingPerfectionist Author:Keke Palmer
“All roads seem to have come back to Doctor Who in our life. But, no, it was a huge part of my growing up. I was a massive fan and it certainly inspired me to get into acting and to be ... one of those people that tells stories on TV. That was a huge part of my childhood.” PeopleStoriesSeemsActingGrowing UpOur LivesGrowingFansChildhoodTvsHugeDoctorsInspiredMassiveDoctor Who Author:David Tennant
“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.” PeopleMenMadeSelfMatterWould BeWantedUsedGrowsActingAudienceLaughingGrowing UpFrontsHe ManLoversSceneConsciousUncomfortableSelf ConsciousMy Lover Author:Billy Crystal
“I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.” PeopleGrowsFeltGrowing UpDamageHousehold Author:Andrew Solomon
“Most people grow up thinking everybody wants to come to America because America is the sweet spot of the planet. America is the greatest place in the world - which it is - and everybody wants to be here.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantAmericaGrowsGrowing UpPlanetsSweetSpotsPlaces In The World Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this thing called the Eisteddfod where people compete in singing and acting and dancing and oratory all sorts of things. From a very young age, it's been a part of my upbringing.” PeopleAgeSchoolYoungArtistLanguageParentCommunityActingGrowing UpGrowingSingingDancingYoung AgeUpbringingWalesOratoryWelshSinging And ActingSchools And Community Author:Iwan Rheon
“My foray into the wrestling world is well documented in that I have stated many a time that I am not the kid that grows up and aspires to put wrestling trunks and wrestling boots on and get in the ring and flies around to entertain people.” PeopleWorldWellsKidsGrowsGrowing UpRingsWrestlingBootsAspireTrunks Author:Bill Goldberg
“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountryBigsThreeCitiesGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingFashionNew YorkParticularSwaggerAtlanta Author:Cam Newton
“My German heritage, it's through food. Growing up in Switzerland, the thing that I remember the most is the food. And so the way that I experience people and places is through that - through its food and cuisine.” PeopleWayRememberGrowing UpGrowingHeritageCuisineSwitzerland Author:Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark
“I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.” PeopleHas BeensMotherAnimalGrowing UpGrowingDogHugeLoversBirdCatCaringAccusedRabbitsAnimal LoveTurtlesAnimal LoverCaring More Author:Amanda Schull