Grew Quotes - Page 11

• I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

  John Lydon

  Country, Clever, Proud

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• I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

  David Lynch

  Growing Up, Listening, Grew Up

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• Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

  Shirley Manson

  Feelings, Appearance, Integrating

  "New Again: Garbage". Interview with Paige Powell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.

  Shirley Manson

  Girl, Mean, Artist

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• I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

  Hilary Mantel

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• 'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Rocks, Listening

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• I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

  Bruno Mars

  Two, Stories, Sticks

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• I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Growing Up, Self Esteem, New Orleans

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• I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Order, Waiting

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

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• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Men, Ice, Skating

  "On the ‘Parks & Rec’ Set with Tatiana Maslany". Interview, etcanada.com. October 15, 2013.

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• My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Mom, Dad, Ideas

  "Tatiana Maslany, Beside Herself". Interview with James Ostime, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

  Rachel McAdams

  Sports, Art, Dad

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• I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Fun, Stress, Worry

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• I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

  Kevin McCloud

  Successful, Theatre, Designer

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• I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone's inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Islands, Age, Daylight

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• I grew up with not a lot of money and I definitely shopped at Goodwill. But even in my most unfortunate state, I was really blessed compared to a lot of the rest of the world. I had a really great chance to follow my dreams and have them actually come true.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Dream, Blessed, World

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

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• I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

  Scotty McCreery

  Thinking, Soul, Listening

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• I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Score, Athletics

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

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• Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

  A. J. McLean

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

  Jon Meacham

  Father, Gun, Rifles

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• I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

  Leighton Meester

  Girly, Book, Reading

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• My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

  Joyce Meyer

  Father, Atmosphere, Negative

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• This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

  Wentworth Miller

  Roles, Done, Proud

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• I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

  Mike Mills

  Hate, Sadness, Thinking

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• As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

  Mike Mills

  Talking, House, Doe

  "'This film is unmarketable'". Interview with Pascal Wyse, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2006.

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