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• And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

  David Benioff

  Growing Up, Thinking, Goal

  "David Benioff" by Jason Bateman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

  Emma Bell

  Dark, Ghost Stories, Russia

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• I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

  Grant Bowler

  Dad, Self, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

  Alice Englert

  Growing Up, Writing, Editing

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• I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

  Erik Estrada

  New York, Environment, English Speaking

  "‘Chips’ Star Erik Estrada Preps For Dance Competition, Takes Our Pop Quiz". Interview With Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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• Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Country, Black, Sometimes

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• I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

  Matthew Emmons

  Girl, People, Awkward

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• I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

  Mireille Enos

  Houston, Grew, Settings

  "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.

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• I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.

  Sutton Foster

  Kids, Thinking, Laughing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Drowsy Chaperone's Sutton Foster Plus Pajama Game on Disc". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Make your kids go out and play. Kids ought to grow up the way you and I grew up and we grew up fifty years apart or maybe more. But we did the same things. Now who's out playing in the afternoon? Nobody.

  C. Everett Koop

  Nature, Growing Up, Kids

  "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May.21, 2010.

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• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  Iris Johansen

  Children, Book, Writing

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• She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Age

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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• My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

  George Thorogood

  Family, Parent, Taught

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• I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

  Ree Drummond

  Mother, Children, Golf

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• I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

  Rick Danko

  Records, Way, Detroit

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• We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

  Roger Daltrey

  Community, Shepherds, Wonderful

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• My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

  Edie Falco

  Kids, Silence, Parent

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• I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

  Guy Fieri

  Men, Thinking, Games

  "Guy Fieri on Why He Was Born to Host Minute to Win It". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

  Mark Feuerstein

  New York, School, Cities

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• I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

  Paul Feig

  Girl, Thinking, Views

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• For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

  Shenae Grimes

  People, Judging, House

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• I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in.

  Kay Granger

  Country, School, Thinking

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• I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.

  Nina Garcia

  Mother, Fashion, House

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

  Paul Goldberger

  New York, Car, Shapes

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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