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“I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.”

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“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.”

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Author:Dennis Lehane

“I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.”

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Author:Peter Zumthor

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

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Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.”

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Author:Bailey Chase

“I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.”

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Author:Devon Werkheiser

“I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.”

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Author:Thomas Kinkade

“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”

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Author:Ina Garten

“When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.”

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Author:Marisa Miller

“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”

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Author:Macklemore

“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.”

“Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.”

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Book:The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Driving through much of the southern part of the U.S. reminds me of where I grew up in Canada. The trees, homes, sense of community... I love the South.”

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Author:Laurie Holden

“I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.”

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Author:Cherie Lunghi

“I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.”

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Author:Tammy Blanchard

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