Grew Up Quotes - Page 40

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  K. D. Lang

  Kids, Piano, Listening

  "KD Lang: 'I get completely drawn in'" by KD Lang, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Television, Tvs, Mediums

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

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• I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

  Sheryl Lee

  Colorado, Twins, Twin Peaks

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• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sports, Football, Shooting

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• I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

  Anson Mount

  War, American History, South

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

  Anson Mount

  Horse, Riding, Experts

  "Q&A – Anson Mount (Cullen Bohannon)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

  Cristin Milioti

  School, Aunt, Simple

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

  Joe Manganiello

  Book, Kids, Crowds

  "Joe Manganiello Exclusive Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

  Joe Manganiello

  Fit, Misfits, Grew

  "DA MAN Exclusive: Joe Manganiello Of 'True Blood'". Interview with M. Berlian, daman.co.id. September 20, 2012.

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• My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

  Mike McGavick

  Dad, Son, Eldest

  "McGavick's Confession". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2006.

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• You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

  Mike McGavick

  Shadow, Towers, Grew

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• I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Barbie, Way, Grew

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• I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.

  Ryan McPartlin

  School, College, Illinois

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

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• I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

  Shay Mitchell

  Mom, Dad, Filipino

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• I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

  A. J. McLean

  Musical, Theatre, And Love

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• I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

  Anthony Mackie

  Father, Ideas, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.

  Austin Mahone

  Country, Kids, Men

  "Austin Mahone On His New Album, Touring With Taylor Swift And Why He’s NOT The Next Justin Bieber (Exclusive)". Interview with Taylor Trudon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fun, Barbie, Blonde

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• In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

  China Mieville

  Heart, Dragons, Fields

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• I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

  Debi Mazar

  Running, Humble, Path

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

  Denise Mina

  London, Feeding, Disgusting

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• I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

  Don McLean

  Different, Albums, Records

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• I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Writing, Men

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

  Gabriel Macht

  New York, Kids, Parent

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

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