Grew Up Quotes - Page 31

• That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

  Michelle Forbes

  Smart, Thinking, Veins

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• I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

  Rupert Friend

  Middle Of Nowhere, England, Countryside

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

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• My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Mother, Believe, Married

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• I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.

  Austin Grossman

  Memories, Character, Writing

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• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  Cam Gigandet

  Growing Up, Opposites, People

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• I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?

  Erin Gruwell

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

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• I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.

  Troy Garity

  Careers, Acting, Grew

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

  Andy Gibb

  Parent, Balance, Shows

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

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• I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

  Bill Goldberg

  Hockey, Midwest, Grew

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• I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, Dad, School

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• I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

  Dick Gephardt

  School, Kids, Simple

  "Who Is Richard Gephardt?", abcnews.go.com.

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• We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

  Greta Gerwig

  California, Grandfather, Poor

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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• My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

  Jennifer Garner

  Mom, Dad, Oklahoma

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• I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

  Marla Gibbs

  Time Zones, People, Sensitive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Block, Flower, Garden

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• When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

  Mireille Guiliano

  United States, France, Size

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• I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

  Jeff Abbott

  Moving, Thinking, Creative

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• Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

  Marc Andreessen

  Distance, Party, Phones

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

  Paul Allen

  Book, Tangible, Firsts

  "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

  Peter Agre

  Father, People, Four

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• Television and I grew up together.

  Roger Ailes

  Together, Television, Grew

  Roger Ailes (2012). “You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are”, p.13, Crown Business

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• I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Culture, Storytelling, Grew

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• I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

  Alan Bradley

  Book, Grandmother, Great Love

  "Book Talk: Alan Bradley on young sleuths and TV series". Interview with Noreen O'Donnell, www.reuters.com. March 8, 2013.

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