Josh Keaton (Joshua Luis Wiener) Quotes

I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.

Josh Keaton

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• I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

  

  Iman
  • Never
  • Child
  • Nerdy

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Grew Up
  • Grew

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Hands

• I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Class
  • Grew Up
  • Diet

• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Grew Up
  • Performed
  • Inspirations

• I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Movie
  • Grew Up
  • Storytelling

• When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Education
  • Price
  • Understood

• You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

  

  Satya Bhabha
  • Actor
  • Surprise
  • Escape

• As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

  

  Mike Mills
  • World
  • House
  • Talking

• I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Grew Up
  • Fight
  • Trouble

• I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Business
  • Audience
  • Difference

• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Grew Up
  • Compare
  • Beatles

• When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.

  

  Swara Bhaskar
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in Plano, Texas.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Grew Up

• I grew up in Dubai, all my friends are there and I'm so used to it. It's such an over-the-top kind of place. It's really fun to perform there.

  

  Karl Wolf
  • Grew Up
  • Perform
  • Dubai

• I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I'm the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • Fans
  • Grew Up
  • Talented people

• I grew up in a Navy family.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Family
  • Grew Up
  • Navy

• I have brothers and was a tomboy, if that's still a designation. It wasn't a stretch for me to think and write as a 13-year-old boy - it is freeing.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Boy
  • Brothers
  • Designation

• The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

  

  Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Unexpected
  • Formula

• On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.

  

  Ernest Mandel
  • Organization
  • Class
  • Conscious

• I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Grew Up
  • Nerdy