Grew Quotes - Page 12

• Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

  Helen Mirren

  Running, Rest Of Your Life, Sometimes

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• A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

  Moby

  Scary, Manhattan, Brooklyn

  "Moby Discusses His ISSUEs". Interview With Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

  Moby

  Fiction, Scientist, Obsessed

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• My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

  Moby

  Uncles, Argentina, Hearing

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• For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.

  Moby

  Mom, Men, Years

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• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  Taylor Momsen

  Two, Cameras, Kind

  "Iron Maiden". Interview With Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. July 27, 2009.

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• I grew up a massive Beatles fan.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Fans, Grew Up, Massive

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, World, Expecting

  "Alan Moore Takes League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen To The ’60s". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 21, 2011.

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• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  Mandy Moore

  Florida, Musical, Singing

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• People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

  Michael Moore

  College, Class, People

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• I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.

  Alanis Morissette

  Brother, Men, Guy

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• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Kids, Years

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• I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Mother, Father, Responsibility

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Physics

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Comedy, Favourite

  "Mike Myers: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.

  Mike Myers

  Long, Bollywood, Toronto

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• I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

  V. S. Naipaul

  World, Grew Up, Bigger

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• I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

  Mira Nair

  Book, India, World

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

  Mira Nair

  World, Towns, Small Town

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  Nas

  Pbs, Discovery, Ifs

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

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• But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

  Liam Neeson

  Hands, Iron, Fists

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• It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

  Liam Neeson

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

  Gregory Peck

  School, Gnarly, Feet

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• I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

  Mike Pence

  Hero, Grateful, Heart

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

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• I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

  Katy Perry

  Ideas, Bonus, Care

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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