Growing Up Quotes
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
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I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
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I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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While I was growing up, all the boys used to be my buddies. I never got that special kind of attention from them, and I was the tomboy around. Although I've become an actress today, I still have those traits.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.
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When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
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Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?
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I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.
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It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
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She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.
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I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
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The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.
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I don't need anyone to write me a show in my style, I would like to do a show in a style that wasn't my style, because that's the only way I can grow up and grow out.
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I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.
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Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.
