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I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

  

  Cam
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• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
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• Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

  

  Laura Innes
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• I want to do a make-up line for men.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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• Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

  

  Kygo
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• The Zambesi is a big river; there's no crocodiles on 4 Mile Run.

  

  Jim Fowler
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• We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

  

  Peter Abrahams
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• Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011.

  

  Doc Hastings
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• I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

  

  Amanda Burton
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• I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

  

  Elliot Page
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