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		There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's something a little nostalgic about 'Grimm' and the fairy tales that they grew up with. And it's a very unique approach to the procedural side of things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sasha Roiz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva Longoria
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ruth Negga
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Serena Williams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Stephen Sprouse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Josh Segarra
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		As a Marvel fan who grew up with 'The Avengers' and 'Ant-Man' and everything, I definitely have my own sort of feelings about what I want to see as a fan in an 'Ant-Man' movie.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peyton Reed
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - for whatever reason - they ended up in a fundamentally different place than I did. I'm the attorney general of the United States and they are ex-felons.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eric Holder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I guess because of the way we grew up, we don't put people on a pedestal as high as other people do because we didn't know the pedestal existed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nathan Followill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up with SpongeBob - it came out in 1999, right before I turned 7. So it's been a part of my life and all my friends' lives and defined our humor, in a way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ethan Slater
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Esperanza Spalding
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael Rapaport
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Norah O'Donnell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elena Ferrante
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cenk Uygur
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eve Ensler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in a Navy family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Edwards
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eva LaRue