Grew Up Quotes - Page 3

• I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.

  Ice T

  House, Parent, Black

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• You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.

  George Takei

  Two, Young, Camps

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

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• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mixing, Watches, Stories

  Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2003.

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• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Anger, Saws

  "Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

  Charlize Theron

  Movie, Grew

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• I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

  Charlize Theron

  Makeup, Thinking, People

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Years, Cameras, Three

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• I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.

  Pete Townshend

  Inspirational, Dance, Dad

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• I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

  Mike Trout

  Couple, Atmosphere, Trout

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• I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.

  Josh Turner

  Simple, People, Pleasure

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• I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Real, Hymns

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• I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  Josh Turner

  Girl, Country, Real

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• I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

  Josh Turner

  Water, Tree, Black

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• One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.

  Josh Turner

  Growing Up, South Carolina, Favorite Places

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, Cnn, News

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• In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

  Tina Turner

  Animal, Tennessee, Mules

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• I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Towns

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• I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

  Carrie Underwood

  Queens, Listening, Littles

  "Carrie Underwood interview: 'I'm influenced by My Chemical Romance'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

  Tom Vilsack

  Thinking, Cities, Agriculture

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues.

  Tom Vilsack

  Mother, Kids, Years

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• I grew up in Chicago, and I understand what Michael Jordan symbolizes.

  Dwyane Wade

  Chicago, Jordan, Grew

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• I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

  Dwyane Wade

  College, Illinois, Cities

  "Dwyane Wade: Basketball Dad". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

  Christopher Walken

  Speak English, Broken, People

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• By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

  Christopher Walken

  Queens, School, Names

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