Grew Quotes - Page 13

• I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

  Katy Perry

  Listening, My Family, Grew Up

  "Women in Music: Katy Perry". Interview with Julie Vadnal, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

  Matthew Perry

  Hockey, Law, Canada

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• I loved playing Chandler. I grew up playing that part.

  Matthew Perry

  Grew Up

  "Matthew Perry says ‘Friends’ and ‘Go On’ are his two favorite roles". www.hypable.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

  Rick Perry

  Running, Views, Water

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• I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.

  Rick Perry

  School, Awards, Texas

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I grew up in a house where my father went on auditions, and he got some and he lost some, and there were good years and lean years. I didn't expect anything from the business, and that's often a danger in Hollywood, the notion that if you're pretty and have white teeth and just show up for the game then you'll win.

  Chris Pine

  Father, Winning, Years

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• My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

  John Piper

  Mother, Gasoline, Mouths

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• I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Teaching, Careers, Ideas

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we'd sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.

  Brad Pitt

  Summer, Night, Oklahoma

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Different, Culture

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, School, Comforting

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• When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Tulsa, Littles

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• Where I grew up - we started out in Oklahoma and then moved to Missouri - it was considered hubris to talk about yourself. And the downside of that was that ideas rarely got exchanged, or true feelings.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Oklahoma, Feelings

  Interview with Jeff Giles, ew.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

  Miuccia Prada

  Light, Shopping, Bored

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

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• I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

  Dennis Quaid

  Kids, Houston, My Favorite

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• I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

  Dennis Quaid

  Talking, People, Church

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• I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mother, Growing Up, Drinking

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• On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

  Carroll Quigley

  New York, Practice, London

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• I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Car, Listening, Tunes

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• My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Cities, London

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• All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Lying, Eye

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• I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.

  John C. Reilly

  Song, Dad, Kids

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Vancouver, Grew Up, Columbia

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

  Christina Ricci

  Night, Different, Albums

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