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“I was an athlete when I was growing up.”

“I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.”

Firsts Wanted Acting Growing Up Five Growing Player Ambition Musician Nine Hockey Usual Hockey Player

Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

Bigs Kids Today Growing Up Growing Enlightenment Frustration Rebellion Individualism Outlets Big Business Kids Growing Up

Author:Joey Ramone

“When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore.”

Wells Made Economy Growing Up Growing Products Rage Sony

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.”

Would Be Actors Growing Up Growing

Author:Lance Reddick

“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”

Kind I Can Country Courses Community Interesting Growing Up Growing Influence Radio Campus Gospel Music

Author:Lionel Richie

“Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.”

Country Perfect Growing Up Growing Influence Pops Grandmother Pot My Grandmother Classical Music Melting Melting Pot

Author:Lionel Richie

“TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.”

Long Home Dream School Fall Watches Growing Up Growing Television Tvs Mom My Mom Ran Grades Homework

Author:Melissa Rauch

“I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.”

Parent Growing Up Growing

Author:Michael Reagan

“Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.”

Eye Universe Pay Growing Masters Income Tales Inequality Shops Executives Gaps Laborers Income Inequality Popping Financiers Pay Gap

Author:Steven Rattner

“I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.”

Years Ends Remember Next Games Growing Up Growing Brother Seven Tails Seven Years Playing Games

Author:Ali Smith

“Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.”

Way Want Literature Growing Exercise Stronger Block Censorship Surpassing Growing Stronger

Author:Ali Smith

“One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.”

Children Teach Growing My Children

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

“When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.”

Emotion Growing Up Growing Complexes Movie

Author:John Slattery

“I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.”

Mean Doe Remember Mother Growing Up Growing Streets Seven

Author:Karrine Steffans

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”

Has Beens Stories Able Wanted Growing Up Growing Depends Adults Ancestor Storyteller Great Gifts

Author:Leslie Marmon Silko

“That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.”

Years Stills Whole Growing Up Growing New York Twenties Great Things Islands Plus Being There

Author:Steven Strait

“Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbour and playing in the beautiful parks.”

Beautiful Water Memories Growing Up Growing Walking Beach Islands Parks Australia Harbors

Author:Tammin Sursok

“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.”

Kind Wanted Fun Careers Watches Growing Up Growing Team Models My Favorite Gymnast

Author:Alicia Sacramone

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

World Bigs Growing Up Growing

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.”

Years Growing Up Growing Ballerina

Author:Amy Smart

“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.”

Bigs Jobs Felt Growing Up Growing One Day Glad Noses

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!”

Years Care Wanted Mother Difficult Growing Hair Years Ago Let Me Sticks Curls Perms

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.”

Black Interest Community Growing Up Growing Percent Nine Ninety Ninety Nine Black Community

Author:David Sanborn

“When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.”

Thinking Different Energy Felt Born Destiny Growing Up Growing Minutes Supposed To Be Destination Texas Intangible Intangible Quality

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I guess I'm growing up in the film world.”

World Film Growing Up Growing

Author:Devon Sawa

“We have to mainstream everybody. No matter what their circumstances when they were growing up. Part of that is knowing that after they're finished with school, everybody in this country gets up and goes to work.”

Country Matter School Growing Up Knowing Growing Circumstances No Matter What Finished Get Up Mainstream

Author:Donna Shalala

“Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.”

Feels Body Felt Growing Up Growing Embrace Feminine Insecure

Author:Hope Solo

“I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.”

Thinking Way Kind Self Facts Kids Growing Up Growing Self Esteem Calling Comfortable Singers Esteem Cards

Author:Katey Sagal

“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.”

Littles States America Guy Values Fighting Levels United United States Growing Up Growing Areas Discrimination Valleys Framework County Poorest Colorado

Author:Ken Salazar

“I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.”

Should Believe Has Beens Important Dream Today Given Born Growing Up Growing Advantage Important Things Don't Believe Guides Priorities Elites American Dream Reserved

Author:Ken Salazar

“In a time of continued population growth the consequences are devastating, needless to say. The Earth is too crowded already in terms of aura, and it's growing at 20 percent a decade.”

Earth Humanity Growth Term Growing Buddhism Percent Consequence Population Decades Crowded Auras Population Growth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.”

Men Said Waiting White Growing Up Saws Growing Discrimination White Man Segregation Racial Discrimination

Author:John Lewis

“Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.”

Girl Growing Up Growing Dancing My Sister Pretty Girl Recitals Leotards

Author:Jason Sudeikis

“Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.”

Different Grows Growing Up Growing Childhood Type Benefits Drawbacks

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“Growing up in Hollywood, like I did, I have a passion and a love for the movies, so I go to the cinema all the time.”

Passion Growing Up Growing Hollywood Cinema

Author:Leonard Slatkin

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

Play Bigs Growing Up Growing My Family Instruments Musical Big Things Musical Instruments Family Growing Up

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I was a competitive guy growing up.”

Guy Growing Up Growing

Author:Mark Sanchez

“I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.”

Knows Sound Acting Growing Up Growing Accidents Bedroom Posters Obnoxious Brando

Author:Michael Shannon

“I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.”

People Mother Church Religious Known Growing Up Issues Growing Believer Backgrounds Flamboyant Personal Issues

Author:Michael Shannon

“Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.”

Way Sometimes Faces Young Parent Differences Attention Growing Up Growing Jokes Noses Tease Showing Love

Author:Neil Strauss

“When I was growing up, 'Anna Karenina' was one of my favourite books.”

Book Growing Up Growing Favourite Anna Favourite Book

Author:Paullina Simons

“At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie.”

Years Growing League Minors Philadelphia

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.”

Kind Hard Body Language Growing Up Growing Hard Times Awkward Body Language

Author:Analeigh Tipton

“What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.”

States Enough Life Is Cities Quality Growing Unique Towns Raises Remarkable Destination Better Place Small Town Quality Of Life Affordable Suburbs Ohio Within Reach

Author:Bob Taft

“It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!”

Watches Growing Up Growing Brother My Brother Tennis

Author:Christine Taylor

“I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.”

Hard House Quality Growing Up Growing Boxes Work Out Not Sure Candy Chips High Quality Sporadic

Author:Rachael Taylor

“Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.”

Growing Up Growing Bills

Author:Robin Thicke

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