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“When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.”

Writing Wells Long Ideas Practice Growing Up Growing Long Time No Idea Journal Writing Life

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.”

Feels Mind Body Age Growing Up Growing Conversation Bounds Your Body

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.”

Feels Growing Up Growing Very Cool

Author:Alice Lowe

“Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's your reality.”

Thinking Reality Kids Young Race Growing Up Growing Middle Mixed Race

Author:Matt de la Pena

“We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.”

Reason Problem Deals Attention Brain Wonder Growing Up Growing Generations Development Becoming Quitting Reason Why Reports I Quit Shrinking Attention Span Brain Development

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.”

Ifs Littles Happens Kids Able Ability Wonder Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“Well to me growing, up I've had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned. He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn't come out of the water alive. Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.”

“Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers that seemed to ground me in it, but to pursue culture in those days meant being spun around until dizzy and then pushed east.”

Book Culture Growing Up Growing East Locals Pursue Landscape Native Native American Cowboy San Francisco Pioneers Spun Dizzy Up North

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“Growing up, Catholic church really was such an incubator for my imagination, because all of those mysteries felt embedded in this insanely green, tropical landscape: the ocean nearby, the giant banyan trees. It all felt part of one seamless mystery to me.”

Felt Imagination Church Growing Up Growing Mystery Tree Ocean Catholic Green Landscape Giants My Imagination Catholic Church Embedded Tropical Seamless

Author:Karen Russell

“I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.”

School Growing Up Growing High School

Author:Vanessa Ray

“I grew up camping with my family. We took so many trips. We had an RV, actually, when we were growing up. We did a ton of camping trips and went across the country.”

Country Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up My Family Camping Rvs

Author:Kirsten Lepore

“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've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene.”

Kind Long Done Growing Up Growing Scene Karate

Author:Suki Waterhouse

“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.”

Art Artist Growing Up Growing Becoming Circumstances Art Is Wealthy

Author:Kesh

“I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.”

Knows World Art Made Whole Home Decision Growing Up Growing Internet Whole World Gallery Art Galleries

Author:Kesh

“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.”

People Mean Ideas Bigs Growing Up Growing Internet Raised Phones Myth Digital Apps Adept

Author:Astra Taylor

“I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.”

Thinking Church Memories Growing Up Growing Sunday Recalls

Author:M. Ward

“I guess it's kind of the obvious thing for me to do 'cuz it's what I grew up listening to. The songs growing up and everything kind of seem like old music to them, but to me, it's just... good music. And of course I did grow up in England in the 21st Century and that does come into it as well.”

Wells Kind Doe Seems Song Courses Grows Growing Up Growing Century Listening Grew Grew Up England Obvious 21st Century Cuz Obvious Things Old Music

Author:George Ezra

“No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.”

Stills Hard Growing Up Growing Fans Huge Inspired Obsession Eleven

Author:Stacey King

“Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.”

“I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.”

Knows Kind School Reading Lost Sports Interest Growing Up Growing Grades Playing Sports

Author:John Brandon

“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

“When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything that was too subversive was basically banned. All the music that we got from outside of South Africa was the poppiest, least subversive music that you could get.”

World Stills Country Growing Up Growing South Artistic South Africa Apartheid Subversive Banned

Author:St. Lucia

“I feel like kids that grew up in New York City or in L.A. were exposed to all these subcultures and subgenres, whereas I was only exposed to the poppiest of pop music so I never had this negative connotation towards pop music. That's not South African music having an effect on me, but just how international music was filtered through South Africa affected me. It gave me a not-negative connotation towards pop music growing up.”

Feels Kids Cities Growing Up Growing Effects New York Grew Grew Up Negative South International Pops Affected New York City Exposed South Africa Pop Music Connotation Subculture African Music

Author:St. Lucia

“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.”

States Growing Up Growing Conversation South South Africa

Author:St. Lucia

“When I was growing up, there were no cell phones and no roads into the bush, and so if something happened to your plane, that was serious. Nobody was coming to rescue you.”

Ifs Growing Up Growing Happened Serious Phones Cells Planes Rescue Cell Phone

Author:Leigh Newman

“I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.”

Thinking Seems Kids Growing Up Growing Chaos Inevitable Permanent Surroundings

Author:Leigh Newman

“I never had good hair growing up - just had the worst nothing hair - and until I started being rough with it, even 'til this day I'm actually pretty rough with it, and ever since I've been like that it's been pretty darn good to me.”

Growing Up Growing Worst Hair Rough This Day Good Hair

Author:Lights

“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.”

People Want Young Fun Growing Up Growing Crazy Responsible Having Fun Being Responsible Being Crazy Invincibility

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.”

People Ends Growing Up Growing Teaching Hair Lucky Overwhelming Thick Ponytails Thick Hair

Author:Crystal Renn

“When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider it as an option. But I was fortunate that in the late-'60s and '70s, because of the feminist movement, women were stepping into all sorts of careers that had been closed to them in the past and film was one of them.”

Past Film Careers Growing Up Growing Heard Movement Directors Late Feminist Fortunate Film Directors Feminist Movement

Author:Chris Hegedus

“I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.”

Kids Wanted Choices Growing Up Growing Groups Band Outsiders Cranberries

Author:Dawn Angelique

“The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.”

Kids Growing Up Growing Smell Speed Agents Gas Bike Liquid

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I have fond memories of growing up in beautiful England. It is very much a part of the fabric of me, even though I left when I was quite young. It's just a very different culture over there, filled with a profound depth of history.”

Different Beautiful Young Culture Left Memories Growing Up Growing England Filled Profound Depth Fabric Different Cultures Fond Memories

Author:Samantha Newark

“I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.”

Film Growing Up Growing Fans Land Huge Favourite Animated Animated Films

Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“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.”

People Different Past Beautiful Remember Spirit Hate Growing Up Growing I Hate Ugly Hearing Hated Physical Beauty

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.”

Different Parent Growing Up Growing Style Dad My Dad Driven Mum Different Styles Motown

Author:Ella Henderson

“I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Growing Up Growing Honest Believable

Author:Ella Henderson

“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.”

“I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and there were a lot of other issues I don't feel comfortable talking about publicly. I spent a lot of time in therapy dealing with these issues though, and I feel i'm finally starting to move past them.”

Feels Past Moving Parent Talking Opinion Growing Up Issues Growing Comfortable Starting Therapy Abusive Stepfathers

Author:Marie Calloway

“Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!”

Ifs I Can School Deals Class Growing Up Teacher Growing Imagine High School Annoying Fourteen Annoying Things

Author:Lizzy Plapinger

“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.”

People Thinking Kids Acting Roles Growing Up Growing Imagine Possibility Lucky Bottles Texas Offering Rockets Kids Growing Up Bottle Rocket

Author:Owen Wilson

“Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.”

Wanted Sports Growing Up Growing Fashion Industry Aunt Commentators Fashion Industry

Author:Olivia Palermo

“Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.”

Thinking Important Hard Home Growing Up Growing Music Education

Author:Sean Mackin

“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.”

Ifs Knows Years Art Play School Growing Up Growing Imagine Mom Mets Ten High School My Friends My Mom Eight Quitting Piano Gentleman Classical Music Violin Submerged Uncool

Author:Sean Mackin

“I would definitely write to the kid that I was before, to embrace the moment. I think that often times when you're coming of age or growing up you look forward and you work really hard instead of sitting back and relaxing and enjoying the moment.”

Thinking Writing Looks Hard Moments Kids Age Enjoy Growing Up Growing Sitting Embrace Coming Of Age Enjoying The Moment

Author:Sean Mackin

“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.”

People Knows Want Wells Kind Today Young Social Growing Up Growing Fit Pressure Embrace Social Pressure

Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

“As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.”

Character Film Girl Growing Up Growing England Historical Slave Like Me Biracial Girls Growing Up

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.”

Father Growing Up Environment Growing Musician Doctors Combination

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

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