Grew Up Quotes - Page 10

• I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.

  LaToya London

  Singing, Houston, Firsts

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• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Dad, Father, Self

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Mark, Reading Shakespeare

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• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  Andrea McLean

  Children, Ideas, Sugar

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• Read to your children all of the time
  Novels and nursery rhymes
  Autobiographies, even the newspaper
  It doesn't mater; it's quality time
  Because once upon a time
  We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
  We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
  For us to truly know our souls

  Taylor Mali

  Children, Voice, Nurse

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• I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

  David James

  Break Up, War, Rocks

  Biography/Personal, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught

  Karl Malone

  Way, Taught, Grew

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• I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

  Carl Perkins

  Book, Cat, Rocks

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• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Italian, Birth, Grew

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• I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

  Alexis Stewart

  Gun, Glue, Grew

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• I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act

  Willie Mays

  Kids, White, Issues

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• I didn't grow up in the ocean -- as a matter of fact -- near the ocean -- I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.

  George W. Bush

  Growing Up, Ocean, Fishing

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• I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.

  Lucretia Mott

  Rights, Important, Grew

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• I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, New York, Government

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• I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.

  Jonah Hill

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  Abel Ferrara

  Baseball, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 27, 2002.

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• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

  Cate Blanchett

  Birthday, Mother, Strong

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• I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

  Edward Norton

  Birthday, Children, Age

  Interview With Scott B., www.ign.com. March 28, 2002.

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• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  Taylor Dane

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

  Janet Flanner

  Baby, War, Fighting

  Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

  John Hume

  Example, Discrimination, Worst

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  George McGovern

  Boys, South Dakota, Prairie

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• I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

  Christopher Durang

  Theatre, Grew

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• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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