“I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.” WayChildrenStatesGrowsDifficultGrowing UpLuckyUniversityFarmersTenants Author:James Hansen
“As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.” WorldChildrenEnoughDreamGamesGrowing UpGrowingLuckyBarsDreams Come TrueGamingChildren Growing UpVideogameGrowing Children Author:Tiger Woods
“When I was a kid growing up in Kentucky, on lucky summer nights, my cousin would pick me up in his Chevy Super Sport and drive me down along the Ohio River to Cincinnati to hear some rock 'n' roll. Those were exciting times, and the bands would play late into the night, rocking soaked in sweat. When I hear the Ready Stance, these memories come back to me and I remember that Cincinnati has produced so many wonderful musicians. The Ready Stance is among that number. You will be hearing a lot about them in the future.” PlayKidsRememberNightSportsMemoriesNumbersGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulRocksReadyLuckyBandLateSummerMusicianPicksRiversExcitingHearingSweatRock N RollCousinOhioStanceKentuckyMy CousinKids Growing UpSummer NightsPick MePick Me UpCome Back To MeChevy Author:Chris Frantz
“I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.” FeelsI CanFactsDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingLessonsLuckyHonestlyAfrican AmericanHungOverlooking Author:Jordan Peele
“If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not moaning about what actors get paid - I'm very, very lucky - but the difference between what leading actors get paid and supporting actors get is a lot.” IfsMatterActorsGrowsDifferencesPoorWorryGrowing UpSuccessfulLuckyPaidLucky YouMoaningSupporting Actors Author:Jason Flemyng
“I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.” DifferentCountryGrowsCitiesGrowing UpGroupsEconomicGrewTypeLuckyGrew UpNeighborhoodDiverseEthnic GroupsDifferent Types Of MusicEconomic Status Author:Mike Posner
“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.” HardWantedFoundParentGrowing UpGrowingBrotherLuckyMusicianActressesDrivenMy BrotherMy SisterGreat Parents Author:Grace Gummer
“Growing up, I was lucky that my dad was never out of work. I was very fortunate in one way: that I never experienced real hardship, because my dad is this real dynamo. He was always working, so I had a sense of the ups and downs and endless disappointments, but at the same time I was never worried that we couldn't eat or pay the bills.” WayRealPayGrowing UpGrowingDadLuckyBillsMy DadDisappointmentEndlessOne WayWorriedFortunateHardshipUps & DownsAlways Working Author:Mary Harron
“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.” PeopleEndsGrowing UpGrowingTeachingHairLuckyOverwhelmingThickPonytailsThick Hair Author:Crystal Renn
“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.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.” IfsI CanHardKidsActorsGrowsParentDifficultTalkingGrowing UpLuckyFakePhenomenalGreat Actors Author:Eric Lange
“Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him.” WellsHas BeensKidsFilmStuffGrowing UpGrowingFrontsStudentsLuckyCamerasPressesProductionsExtrasAssistantsExaggeratedFilm Set Author:Nicole Holofcener
“I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.” EnoughPlayJobsGrowing UpGrowingLuckyTennis Author:Andy Murray
“I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.” EnoughBodyIndividualGrowsSportsVoicePracticeGrowing UpHeardYouthExpressionDutyCommunicationExerciseLuckyEmbraceCompassionateFreethinker Author:Leilani Bishop
“When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.” YearsTwoThreeForceBlackWhiteGrowing UpGrowingAirLuckyBasketballThirdsWinterShoesPairsBootsAir ForcePair Of Shoes Author:Iman Shumpert
“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.” MenYearsPersonsCharacterFactsSchoolYoungGrowsBlackMoralGrowing UpFiveMovementStudentsCitizensLuckyDemocraticChosenYoung ManFive YearsMeant To BeQuartersDefiningDemocratic SocietyMoral CharacterPreps Author:Bill Ayers
“Growing up I never had a perfume. I was like oh, one day when I'm grownup and have money I'm going to wear perfume. I had one perfume and I would save it for really, really, really special occasions. Which meant I never actually wore it. So now it's one of those things like, I can wear perfume everyday. I can afford to buy another one, I'm really lucky that I can. Now when I have nice stuff I don't save it anymore, I try to use it.” TryingI CanUseStuffGrowing UpNiceGrowingSpecialOne DayLuckyEverydayOccasionsPerfumeGrownupsSpecial Occasion Author:Margot Robbie
“If I can do anything in this time of my career, I want to make it easier for other actresses and girls who are growing up to go, 'I get to be a part of a comedy or an action film or a romantic comedy or a thriller or just a romance, without having to wind up with someone to complete us.' I complete me. I just got lucky that, after I completed myself, I met someone who could tolerate me.” IfsWantI CanActionFilmRomanceGirlCan DoCareersGrowing UpComedyGrowingWindEasierMetsLuckyActressesTolerateThrillersAction FilmsComplete Me Author:Sandra Bullock
“There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in 10 years while millions of students can't even afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business. We all know you don't get successful just by having a good idea or working hard. You get successful by being lucky too. If I had to support my family growing up, instead of having the time to learn how to code. If I didn't know that I was gonna be fine if Facebook didn't work out, then I wouldn't be standing up here today. And if we're honest, we all know how much luck we've had.” TodaySupportGrowing UpSuccessfulHonestStudentsLuckyMy FamilyLuckWork OutCodeLoan Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.” PeopleHardBodyEyeLife IsDealsStepsWatchesGrowing UpGrowingLuckyToughYour BodyChanging Your LifeEvery StepPublic EyeWatch MeLife Is Changing Author:Mandy Moore
“I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.” WorldFeelsYearsChildrenLongStatesGrowsWaitingGrowing UpChildhoodLuckySummerActressesGet BackIreland Author:Olivia Wilde