Grew Up Quotes - Page 24

• My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.

  Gunter Grass

  Mother, Childhood, Thumbs

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• Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents’ record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn’t that, it was something else in their collection.

  Jesse McCartney

  Kids, People, Parent

  "Friday Pop Quiz : Conversations With Duffy, Jesse McCartney and Christian Kane, Plus Pick Your Poison (Tree) Streamer". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2010.

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• When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Song, Gay, People

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• I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

  Mark Gatiss

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Glasses

  "Mark Gatiss: My family values". Interview with Alistair Duncan, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2010.

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fashion, Denim, Pairs

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• I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with animals. At one time we had between five and eight dogs in the house, with four cats. We're menagerie people.

  Misty May-Treanor

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  Ziggy Marley

  Soccer, Sports, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

  Ziggy Marley

  Jamaica, Culture, Coconuts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Politician, Grew, Ireland

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• I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Roots, Unions

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• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  Patrick Stump

  Vegetables, Feelings, Stuff

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• My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

  Julian Casablancas

  Mom, Eight, Parent

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• I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

  Brian Tee

  Team, Book, Men

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• Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

  Jane Siberry

  Thinking, Listening, Wonderful

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• I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

  Cathy Rigby

  Sports, Growing Up, Competition

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• I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

  Kreayshawn

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

  Gary North

  Civilization, People, Hatred

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• I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

  Sandy Duncan

  Texas, People, Grew

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• Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised.

  Hayley Atwell

  Summer, Dad, Cities

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

  Frida Giannini

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

  Sebastian Junger

  Belief, Grew, Very Strong

  "A Few Good Men". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2010.

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