Grew Quotes
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[2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.
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I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.
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Two buckets were easier carried than one. I grew up in between.
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I live in Connecticut, but eventually I'd like to move back to New Orleans. I grew up there; the pace is a bit slower. Plus, I love crawfish and po'boys.
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Basically, we've learned to delegate. We just grew tired of becoming too psychotic and straining to make the records ourselves.
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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.
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I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
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When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.
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I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.
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I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
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I'm a hip-hop head, I grew up with it. So I've always loved the music.
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.
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I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
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I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
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Listening to the type of music I grew up with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and experiencing different things and conditions and hardship, as well as the good times in Nigeria, has definitely carved me into who I am.
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
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It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.
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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
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I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
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The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.
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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
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Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
