Growing Quotes

• There are times when what you do will be mysterious to everyone... times when you have to change directions before people are ready. Just because someone does something that critics don't like or understand doesn't mean you're failing as a musician. It probably means you're growing.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Growing
  • Mysterious

• Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

  

  Amanda Crew
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Working with Sylvester Stallone is beyond a 'pinch yourself' moment. I remember growing up watching his films.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Growing

• 'Hook' was one of my favorite movies when I was growing up, so we played with that theme on the title 'Never Land.'

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Up
  • Growing

• The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Science
  • Inspiration
  • Apollo

• Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

  

  James Harden
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Technology

• When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Identity

• 'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising' to be is not necessarily an indictment on bullies, but it reflects my experiences and attitudes that I had with bullies growing up.

  

  Pierce Brown
  • Up
  • School
  • Red

• Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Growing

• I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don't remember specifically what networks they were on, I'll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.

  

  Maulik Pancholy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.

  

  Jeremy Howard
  • Up
  • School
  • Fun

• It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mom

• Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.

  

  Linda Sanchez
  • Growing
  • Perspective

• I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I know, I'm like a kid. Maybe I was a bit too spoilt growing up. Everything just came like I wanted it to.

  

  Asafa Powell
  • Up
  • Growing

• There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Coffee

• Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Cute

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