Grew Up Quotes - Page 30

• I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?

  James Badge Dale

  Choices, Needs, Actors

  "Q&A – James Badge Dale (Will Travers)". AMC interview, www.amc.com.

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• My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

  Peter Diamandis

  Father, Islands, Doctors

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• I grew up in the suburbs.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Grew, Suburbs

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• I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  School, Towns, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.

  Tom DeLonge

  Skateboarding, Grew

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

  Alexander Downer

  Growing Up, Father, Ideas

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

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• I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

  Arne Duncan

  Athlete, Fighting, Player

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• My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to be independent. It's how children grew up in the 1940s and 50s: outside all the time, playing in the dirt, riding your bike around.

  Brooklyn Decker

  Children, Independent, Riding Your Bike

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• The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

  David Duval

  Air, Land, Balls

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• I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

  Joe Dante

  Sports, Father, Golf

  "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.

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• My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

  Micky Dolenz

  Mom, Father, Play

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Nice, Careers, Looks

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• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Strong Women, Two, House

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• I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Oklahoma, Texas, House

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• I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Never Forget, Modest, Forget

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• All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, which is religious, because I grew up in the jungle, the son of missionaries. I want to know, is God real? What's a priest's role?

  Ted Dekker

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

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• We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

  Viola Davis

  Writing, Escaping, Age

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

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• I grew up listening to Frank Sinatra, riding in the car with my grandpa, and I was just intrigued by it.

  Brett Eldredge

  Grandpa, Car, Listening

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• I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.

  Charles Frazier

  Two, People, North Carolina

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  Dan Fogler

  Kids, My Favorite, Periods

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• I love theater. I grew up doing theater.

  Dan Fogler

  Theater, Grew

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• I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

  Debbie Ford

  Mother, Insecure, Dresses

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• I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

  Joanne Froggatt

  Home, House, Tree

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• I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

  Michelle Forbes

  Age, Fans, Television

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