“I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.” MinutesGrewGrew UpSouthParksChicago Author:Richard Roeper
“I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.” ThinkingHardTeamMinutesHard WorkGrewGrew UpUnemployedGet AheadAlways Thinking Author:Ursula Burns
“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.” IfsWritingWantedSchoolHappinessSocialTeacherMinutesGrewInvolvedPaperGrew UpBeatsWorkersSelfishSelfishnessChampionCharacteristicsTennisGradesMissionaryPapersSocial WorkerOne MinuteGrades In School Author:Chris Evert
“I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingFeelsShouldLittlesHas BeensMatterMightWantedGrowsGrowing UpSawsWiseMinutesRocksMaterialsGrewGrew UpPerformancesExcitingVersionsComedianBoredRock N RollMight Have Been Author:Andrew Dice Clay
“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.” IfsKnowsTwoEnoughDreamActorsBornPoorCareersMinutesCarGrewLuckyGrew UpRaisedVillageBusBorn And RaisedGuatemala Author:Erick Chavarria
“Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.” SelfWould BeWatchesBreakFiveMinutesWallGrewGrew UpJokesExcitingCurrentsBillionsCynicalFourthFive MinutesMuppet Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.” PeopleMindIdeasBigsAgeGenerationsMinutesHavensGrewGrew UpNuclearAnnihilationHardcoreForthcomingGodzilla Author:Brad Warner
“I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.” PeopleWayI CanCountryHardStatesMinutesGrewMountainGrew UpWestWoodsHillsCoalVirginiaLivelihoodMiningKentuckyHard LifeTennesseeWest VirginiaLoggingCoal Mining Author:Ralph Stanley
“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.” KindPersonsMadeCountryEnoughSchoolLastsUsedMotherFatherLostDifferencesPayClassPovertyMinutesCollegeGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAreasLocalsSuitsTeenagerFactoriesInfantScholarshipNo MoneyLast MinuteTuitionGoing To CollegeKind PersonHigh School Class Author:Samuel Alito
“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.” KnowsWorldDifferentEyeYoungFatherLeftEmotionSituationMinutesGrewDrugGrew UpFingersGuitarDifferent WorldsAbusiveBad Situations Author:DJ Ashba