Grew Quotes - Page 10

• Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

  Denis Leary

  Basketball, Grew Up, Used

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• I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

  Denis Leary

  Kids, Thinking, Dna

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

  Denis Leary

  Basketball, School, Hockey

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• When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

  Ang Lee

  War, America, Japan

  Interview with Liev Schreiber, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 28, 2009.

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• I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

  Ang Lee

  Country, Knowing, Guy

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• I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

  Ang Lee

  Believe, Order, Giving

  "Ang Lee, 'Life of Pi' Director, Talks Culture Shock, Anxiety And Why His Films Fit Together". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

  John Legend

  Names, Calling, Legends

  "John Legend Reflects On His Early Days - When Kanye West Was Opening For 'Him'". Interview with John Ochoa, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

  Annie Lennox

  Girl, Hair, Groups

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• The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

  Leona Lewis

  Country, London, Crime

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

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• You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Player, Body

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

  Jeremy Lin

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  Laura Linney

  Father, Actresses, Manhattan

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• I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.

  Laura Linney

  Upper East Side, Manhattan, Sides

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• I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom.

  Ryan Lochte

  Mom, Listening, Grew Up

  "Q&A with Golden Goggles winner Ryan Lochte". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.

  Ryan Lochte

  Big Families, Want, Grew Up

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• Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

  Lisa Loeb

  Jobs, Growing Up, Children

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• I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

  Lisa Loeb

  Thinking, Alaska, Rooms

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• I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

  Eva Longoria

  Father, Gun, Target

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. April 21, 2006.

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• I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Girlfriend, Silly, Just Being

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• I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Italian, Kitchen, Meat

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  Samuel Lover

  Wine, Years, Essence

  Samuel Lover, John PROCTOR (Artist) (1863). “Handy Andy: a tale of Irish life ... With eleven illustrations by John Proctor”, p.160

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• I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

  George Lucas

  Believe, San Francisco, America

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• My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

  Bela Lugosi

  Heart, Bed Sheets, Hot

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• I love mythology, grew up loving it. I'm a middle kid, big family, that's the thing you did in the farm country. I lived in Iowa, I loved mythology. I don't know, we're like that.

  Kellan Lutz

  Country, Kids, Iowa

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• When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

  John Lydon

  Brother, Feelings, Four

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