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“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.”

Thinking Age Young Grows Stuff Acting Growing Up Life Experience

Author:Josh Duhamel

“I don't know what I could say specifically, except that everything I've learned as a kid of course must somehow play into what I do now. I think when everything kind of drifted away, I had to go out into the world and learn how to emotionally be okay with all that, which to me was a decades-long process. But also I happened to find my way in life, to find a living, to figure out what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think all of that now probably helps me. It probably gives me more life experience to draw from.”

“You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.”

Thinking Feels Grows Growing Up

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"”

Thinking Wells Kids Left Grows Growing Up Generations Mom Workforce

Author:Kathryn Hahn

“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Trying Persons Kids Moral Growing Up Nice Growing Dog Like You Standards Thoughtful Rude Nice Person

Author:Julianne Hough

“I guess the most difficult thing for me was living up to my mom's expectations. I was always scared that if I didn't do things in this certain way, then my mom just wouldn't think I was great. That's something that was difficult for me growing up.”

Ifs Thinking Way Certain Difficult Growing Up Growing Mom Expectations Scared My Mom Difficult Things

Author:Milla Jovovich

“I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.”

People Thinking Want Hard Opportunity Given Parent Interesting Growing Up Growing Wonderful Unique Raised Great Family Unique Opportunities Wonderful Parents

Author:Abby Huntsman

“I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Littles Might Young Grows Bits Growing Up Failing Little Bit Grownups

Author:Laura Benanti

“Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.”

People Thinking Father Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Good Role Models

Author:Halle Berry

“I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.”

People Thinking Want Looks Grows Growing Up Type Band Train Wrecks Train Wrecks

Author:Billy Corgan

“Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.”

Thinking Age Certain Grows Growing Up Grownups

Author:Keith Richards

“Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'”

People Thinking Feels Mean Doe Done Grows Parent Roles Growing Up Wife Husband Solidity

Author:Priscilla Ahn

“I think that's what growing up is all about. It's about taking on new responsibilities and learning what you can handle, and learning what you can't.”

Thinking Responsibility Growing Up Growing Handle

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'”

Thinking Hell Growing Up Growing Late Too Late

Author:Ronnie Wood

“I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.”

Thinking Two Different Kids Universe Process Difficult Growing Up Growing Adults Teenager Different Universes

Author:Alice Hoffman

“As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.”

Thinking Children Problem Lying Artist House Growing Up Records Growing Painting Products Solve Finished Visible Admiration Exposed Definite Children Growing Up Growing Children

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.”

Thinking Important Stories Shows Pain Black Watches Growing Up Growing Ties Mainstream Growing Pains Family Ties Cosby Show

Author:Lena Waithe

“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Dream Father Grows Vision Growing Up Grew Grew Up Boundaries Visions And Dreams New Vision

Author:Hafez Nazeri

“You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.”

Thinking Hard Growing Up Growing

Author:Charles Roven

“I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen. As a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl. Before you reach that age where your sexuality starts to display itself, kids can look very androgynous, and I guess I leaned more toward the feminine. All those things were very hard, growing up, because you're trying to create an identity, and you're feeling shameful about the one that you're making. So, I identified with it a lot.”

Thinking Trying Looks Hard Reason Feelings Kids Age Girl Levels Growing Up Growing Identity Sexuality Chosen Feminine Display Mistaken Shameful Being Single Androgynous

Author:Matt Reeves

“Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.”

Thinking Happens Life Is Growing Up Growing Expected Things Happen Odd Amazing Life Life Is Amazing

Author:Lauren Bacall

“I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?'”

Thinking World Want Years I Can Whole Girl Courses Grows Born Growing Up Moon Whole World Coincidence Apollo Eleven Nasa

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.”

“Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child. Nature doesn't disdain what lives only for a day. It pours the whole of itself into the each moment. We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last.”

Thinking Children Made Whole Moments Lasts Purpose Values Grows Growing Up Built Lilies Disdain

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“There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.”

Thinking Girl Opportunity Grows Growing Up Groups Like Me Chicago Diverse Georgia

Author:Elana Meyers

“You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.”

Ifs Thinking Self Matter Happens Fighting Sports Creativity Growing Up Growing Failing Connections No Matter What Self Worth Mature Backbone My Self Worth Fear Of Failing

Author:Kelly Clark

“I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age”

Thinking Different Hard Age Young Growing Up Growing Industry Obstacles Young Age Different Times

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.”

People Thinking Way Play Use Language Common Growing Up Growing My Family India Typical Bombay Fooling Around

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.”

Thinking World Doe Happens Growing Up Growing Divorce Things Happen Straightforward

Author:Felicity Jones

“Whenever I get into a tough situation...I think of growing up, and I say, 'This situation won't be the worst one I've ever been in.”

Thinking Situation Growing Up Growing Worst Tough Tough Situations

Author:Billy Wagner

“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Children Doe Stills Real Grows Human Beings Forget Numbers Growing Up Childhood Eating Phones Hats Forget It Phone Numbers Real Human Salami

Author:Erich Kastner

“I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.”

Thinking Children Reason Strong Grows Felt Growing Up Imagine Calm My Children No Reason Grandchildren My Grandchildren Stay Calm

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.”

Thinking Might Church Growing Up Growing Quiet Fundamentals Dancing British Hymns Fiery Jamaica Pentecostal

Author:Grace Jones

“I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.”

People Thinking Growing Up Growing Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Sense Of Humor Just Being Brooks Lear

Author:Rob Reiner

“I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.”

Thinking Knows Way Kind Grows Interesting Growing Up Legends Outsiders Superhero

Author:Eric Kripke

“I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.”

Thinking Has Beens Values Justice Careers Growing Up Issues Growing Understood Embrace Notion

Author:Maya Harris

“I think so much of what informs us as performers is what we had to endure as kids growing up. I was the youngest in my family. I always got a lot of attention.”

Thinking Kids Attention Growing Up Growing My Family Endure Performers Kids Growing Up

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?”

Thinking Kids Growing Up Growing Rocks Digital Rock N Roll Digital Music

Author:Ty Segall

“As somebody who wanted to be creative, growing up, I remember always thinking that the thing I had going against me was Orange County because it seemed like all of the comedy was coming out of New York, and it still is, to a certain extent.”

Thinking Stills Wanted Remember Certain Creative Growing Up Comedy Growing New York Coming Out Be Creative Orange County Always Thinking Orange County

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.”

Thinking World Way Feels Ideas Different Kids Belief Challenges Growing Up Growing Ignorance Devil Adults Scary Remembered Possessed Parallels Holding On Blair Different Ideas Exorcist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.”

People Thinking Knows Said Character Together Actors Growing Up Growing Hollywood

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.”

Thinking Firsts Shows Motivation Passion Grows Challenges Space Growing Up Path Design Tvs Being Famous Small Spaces Decorators Redesign

Author:Nate Berkus

“Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Mind Kind Country Reality Guy Growing Up Growing Crazy Dad My Dad Average Screens Arguing Be Kind Factories Just Being Ohio

Author:Roger Ailes

“I watch a lot of news, and I watch musical shows because I think the music of the young people is really their news reports. They let you know how their country is going through their eyes, and about their experiences in the everyday shock of growing up.”

People Thinking Knows Country Shows Eye Young Watches Know How Growing Up Growing News Everyday Musical Reports Shock

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. Sometimes it doesn't, and we just continue these cycles.”

Thinking Children Ideas Sometimes Mother Father Given Grows Growing Up Our Society Cycles Questioning Adolescence Mother And Father

Author:Alice Englert

“The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.”

Thinking Whole Speak Felt Growing Up Growing Groups Youth Inspired Persona Speaks Out Lennon

Author:John Travolta

“I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.”

Thinking Dream Enjoy Chance Growing Up Growing Mines Huge

Author:Jaimie Alexander

“I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.”

Thinking Different States Kids School Social Grows Growing Up Serious Teenager Canada Different Things Exposed

Author:Neve Campbell

“I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.”

People Thinking Knows Want Believe Kind Two Different Shows Girl Grows Growth Powerful Growing Up Exciting Innocent Knives Different Peoples Really Cool Being Me Meek

Author:Ellen Wong

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