Growing Up Quotes
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When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.
Mahershala Ali
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It was good growing up in a small town. The whole town would shut down on Friday, 5 o'clock. If I'd been a bank robber or wanted to ransack a house, there wasn't nobody in town. The cops would go, too. They'd lead the bus to wherever, to Plano or Cooper or Commerce, wherever we was playing. It was something for a town to rally around, whether we had a winning season or a losing season. It was a place to go gossip, a place to go see friends.
Walt Garrison
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Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
Calvin Harris
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Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.
Ashlee Simpson
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I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
M. John Harrison
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
Candice Swanepoel
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When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.
Carli Lloyd
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Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
Carl Hagelin
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Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.
Zac Brown Band
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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
Gale Norton
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
Tate Donovan
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I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
Iain De Caestecker
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I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.
Mahershala Ali
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
Mahershala Ali
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I was a handful growing up.
Olivia Wilde
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
Yunjin Kim
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham
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My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'
Rachel Bloom
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Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see things on their doorstep every day. But growing up as a kid in a very pretty but ever-so-slightly boring town, where not a great deal happened, encouraged me to be more escapist, more imaginative, and more of a daydreamer.
Edgar Wright
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
Mahershala Ali
