Grew Quotes
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For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.
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I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.
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I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.
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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
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When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
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My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.
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I'm the son of a newsman, I grew up around news, so I can understand the issue, which is that papers are losing subscribers and they're getting less and less outlets... it's a tricky thing. You're going to have to sell papers. The problem is, there's so little reporting anymore.
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
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I have spent some time talking to Rex Tillerson. He's an amazing human being. He's an American success story, not just in his business life. He's a rags-to-riches success story. He stated working at 8, lived in a one-bedroom house until the time he went to college, and grew to become the CEO of one of the world's largest companies.
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People feel like they grew up with me.
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I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
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I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
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God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
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The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.
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I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
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I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.
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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
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I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it.
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I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.
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Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.
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Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
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It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
