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“When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Hero Males Really Cool Super Hero

“I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.”

Thinking Wanted Race Growing Team Drivers Sensible Hobbies Traveled

Author:Dax Shepard

“I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.”

Writing Wanted Opportunity Growing Up Growing Direct Standpoint

Author:Noah Baumbach

“Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is perfect except for god." And I always knew that; I just wanted my victories to be flawless. I didn't want to get hit at all. I wasn't gonna make any mistakes. And that's the problem with me growing up and being around a trainer that wants his fighter to be perfect.”

People Want Wells Said Important Problem Wanted Mother Certain Perfect Mistake Growing Up Growing Victory Fighter Trainers Flawless

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.”

Wanted Growing Attractive Petite

Author:Geena Davis

“Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.”

“Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all the people in my neighborhood were from the South. So you had that Southern cultured environment. The church was very important. And there were these folk ways that were there. I was always fascinated by these Southern stories, people would share these mystified experiences of the South. I wanted to talk about folklore.”

People Way Important Stories Wanted Church Growing Up Environment Growing Share South Folks Neighborhood Southern Fascinated Folklore Story People

Author:Charles Burnett

“I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.”

Giving Able Wanted Parent Growing Up Growing My Family My Sister

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Swimmer

Author:Grace Gummer

“Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.”

Hard Wanted Found Parent Growing Up Growing Brother Lucky Musician Actresses Driven My Brother My Sister Great Parents

Author:Grace Gummer

“[At nine years old] I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.”

Knows Years Might Care Wanted Sports Growing Up Growing Basketball Summer Track Warm Nine Variety Soccer Softball Nine Years Olympian

Author:Elana Meyers

“When I woke up later, I had established all these businesses and we were growing and everything was going well and I was miserable because I was chasing money and not happiness. I decided that day in August that I would quit chasing money and start chasing passion and allow the money to grow around me...I wanted to have passion in my life to show my girls to live by passion.”

Wells Shows Wanted Girl Passion Grows Growing Decided Quitting Miserable Live By Chasing August My Girl Chasing Money

Author:Drew Waters

“I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.”

People Years Wanted Beautiful Faces Growing Up Saws Growing Pure Average Sexy Serene Nun Above Average

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people.”

People Wanted School Beautiful Growing Up Saws Growing Catholic Fantastic Nun Superstar Superhuman Catholic School

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.”

Knows Writing Children Real Wanted School Film Growing Up Teacher Growing Wonderful Magic Drama Theater Scripts Experts Magician Wonderful Friends Houdini

Author:Kristen Connolly

“My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.”

Giving Ideas Wanted Challenges Growing Up Growing Elements Roots London Brands Feminine Tied Dna Twists Realised Serbia

Author:Roksanda Ilincic

“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

“I had a cookie business there, with my brother, when we were growing up, called the Chip Yard, and that became the inspiration for the banana stand. My father said that he wanted us to develop a work ethic, so we'd sit there selling cookies, all day.”

Said Inspiration Wanted Father Growing Up Growing Brother Ethics Selling My Brother Yards Work Ethic Chips Cookies Bananas

Author:Mitchell Hurwitz

“I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.”

Way Kids Wanted Actors Opportunity Growing Up Growing Comfortable Kids Growing Up

Author:Scott Bakula

“Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.”

People Knows Country Wanted School Growing Up Knowing Growing Bob Yards Best School Marty

Author:Beth Mowins

“I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!”

Stills Wanted Growing Up Growing Bob

Author:Dave Pasch

“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.”

People Said Stills States Wanted Stuff Chance Growing Up Growing Ambition Models Negative I Realized My Ambition

Author:Katie Price

“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”

Way Needs Stills Wanted Pain Parent Term Growing Up Too Much Growing Worst Realising Need You

Author:John Lennon

“In a way it was a modern story but it played to all those 1980 slasher movies. We did the same thing with this. Patrick wanted to do a 1970's road movie and if you'll see, this is a modern story but it's got so much 1970's in your face feel to it. So that was the point, to take that stuff that we loved growing up and sort of do it for today. I think we accomplished it. We'll see.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Stories Today Wanted Faces Stuff Growing Up Growing Modern Accomplished Your Face Road Movie

Author:Todd Farmer

“Kenya, being a third world country, from a young age your eyes are open to the real world. I'd like to think growing up there taught me to stand on my own two feet, make my own decisions about what I wanted to be.”

Thinking World Two Real Country Eye Age Wanted Young My Own Decision Growing Up Growing Feet Taught Thirds Real World Young Age Third World Kenya Third World Countries

Author:Chris Froome

“I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be 'sexy,' even before I knew what the word was.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Sexy

Author:Dolly Parton

“When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.”

Two Dream Wanted Growing Up Growing Strive Pet Dinosaurs Montana

Author:Jack Horner

“My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had to do when you owned a music store back then. One day, when I was three years old, he took me to a parade. When the drums passed by, I got so excited I told him wanted to learn to play them.”

Years Play Wanted Fall Three Father Growing Up Growing Rocks One Day Instruments Excited Stores Three Years Parades Illinois Three Year Olds

Author:Louie Bellson

“Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.”

Ifs Mean Sometimes Kids Wanted Fun Deals Growing Up Growing Becoming Fame Frustrating Paparazzi Becoming Famous

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I love my job. It's such a privilege to be able to play such complicated characters. Growing up, I wanted to be a billion different things. I realized in order for that to happen, I don't have to be them all because the characters I want to play require such research and such a transformation to make that work - that's something that I love doing.”

Want Different Play Character Happens Able Wanted Jobs Order Growing Up Growing Research Transformation Privilege Complicated Billions I Realized Different Things

Author:Ashley Bell

“I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.”

Years Kind Wanted Morning Growing Up Growing New York Twenties Radio Accidents Comedian Chicago Hometown Carols Buffalo Stand Up Comedian Rochester

Author:Stephanie Miller

“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

“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.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Littles Might Wanted Social Grows Growing Up Environment Growing Perspective Fit Connected Outsiders Objectivity Social Environment

Author:Moby

“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.”

People World Believe Wanted Opportunity Acting Growing Up Growing Treats Who You Are Opportunity To Change

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.”

Wanted Growing Up Growing Princess Brides Princess Bride

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.”

Kind Play Wanted Growing Up Growing Brother Opposites Girlfriend My Brother Rough My Girlfriend Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Candis Cayne

“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

“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

“We definitely needed to spend a good solid year just finding ourselves before anyone would even notice us. We had our fan-base growing around here in Los Angeles, but I wouldn't even have wanted anyone to come out to see us that was from a record label or something like that at that time, because we really needed to feel ourselves out as a live band.”

Feels Years Wanted Records Growing Fans Needed Band Findings Labels Los Angeles Record Labels

Author:Theresa Wayman

“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.”

Kind Home Kids Wanted Goal White Growing Up Growing Generations Broken Listening Areas Hip Hop Hips Hops Oakland Broken Homes

Author:Moshe Kasher

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