Grew Up Quotes - Page 33

• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Kids, Thinking, Cricket

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

  Ryan Gosling

  Mother, Strong Women, Emotional

  "Ryan Gosling interview - 'Gangster Squad'". www.viva-press.com.

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• So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Difficult Choices, Literature, Grew

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• When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

  Tyson Gay

  Running, Two, Guy

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• I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.

  Josh Henderson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Reality

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• I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Fascination, Hearing

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• I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

  Tricia Helfer

  Ignorant, Age, Culture

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

  Armie Hammer

  Reading, Kids, Fairy Tale

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

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• I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

  Barry Hannah

  Art, Hurt, People

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• I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Listening, Blind

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• I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

  Chad Hugo

  Thinking, White, Hip Hop

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• I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

  Daryl Hall

  Philadelphia, Black, Towns

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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• We all kind of grew up together with Art Blakey because we all were young and he gave us a chance to write. We had to write something that was good and to sit up with a great guy like Art Blakey and watch him.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Art, Writing, Guy

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• I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Insecure, Being Real, Feelings

  "Love And Rockets' Hernandez brothers on 30 years in comics". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Stronger, News, Way

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• I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.

  Jay Hernandez

  Play, Raiders, Grew

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• I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

  Josh Holloway

  Brother, Dirt, Grew

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• I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

  Keith Haring

  Real, School, College

  "New Again: Keith Haring". Interview with Andy Warhol, Emilia Petrarca, Halston, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I go down to Newport and Huntington a lot. It's more crowded than where I grew up on Phillip Island, but I think it's helped me adjust to life in America - getting into the water as much as I can.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Thinking, Islands, America

  Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, okay, I’ll try it.

  Lucy Hale

  Ideas, Singing, Trying

  "We Shine the Spotlight on PRETTY LITTLE LIARS Star Lucy Hale". Interview with Tiffany Vogt, www.thetvaddict.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

  Summer, Wall, Winter

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