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		When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ella Purnell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up and seeing Shawn Johnson, for her to call me on the phone, I think my inner child was freaking out!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laurie Hernandez
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Chanos
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chandra Wilson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathie Lee Gifford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jacqueline Novogratz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lauren Mayberry
			
			
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		Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Rubenstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane Rule
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Denise Van Outen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luke Bryan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Draymond Green
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, 'Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Aldiss
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sabrina Ward Harrison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Keene
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chogyam Trungpa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eleanor Tomlinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Foster
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Kluger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Antoine Fuqua
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Betty Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Robison