Grew Quotes
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Everything, I just wanted to be like my father. And, as I grew within the music, I kind of became myself which was even more like my father, only without me trying though.
Ziggy Marley -
One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.
William Kamkwamba
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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.
Carol Emshwiller -
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
Vivienne Westwood -
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit
Tony Goldwyn -
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
William Eggleston -
When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.
Brad Tavares -
I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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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.
Sanjeev Bhaskar -
I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.
Andrew Solomon -
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
Ving Rhames -
Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
Charles Sprague Sargent -
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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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.
Susan Kelechi Watson -
I grew up in a dysfunctional family.
Melissa Gilbert -
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
Michael Wilbon -
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.
Ari Up -
Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them.
Hayley Mills -
There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country.
Terry Zwigoff
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For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s
Will Estes -
I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.
Moon Unit Zappa -
I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.
Sandra Cisneros -
I grew up in Sheepshead Bay.
Jim Gaffigan