Grew Quotes - Page 15

• Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

  Amanda Seyfried

  New York, First Love, Voice

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• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  Wallace Shawn

  Thinking, Play, One Day

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

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Artist

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• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  Jessica Simpson

  Southern, Church, Baptists

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• As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

  Patti Smith

  Allies, My Sister, Grew Up

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• I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

  Robert Smith

  House, Parent, Bedroom

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• When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

  Robert Smith

  House, Listening, Rolling

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• I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Years, Safari

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• I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

  Wesley Snipes

  Bronx, Grew Up, Teach

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• A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

  Wesley Snipes

  Cat, Found, Bronx

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• I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.

  Wesley Snipes

  New York, Law, Citizens

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love. He just, he had a rough life. You know, he grew up in a boys home in the Bronx. He didn't really know his own family. So I couldn't hold it against him that he didn't know how to parent. He didn't know how to be the perfect husband. But he loved as much as he could.

  Hope Solo

  Brother, Husband, Father

  "Soccer Star Hope Solo On Loving Lost Parents". Interview with Cheryl Corley, listen.sdpb.org. August 18, 2012.

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• Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Pieces, Way, Casts

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• So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Optimism, Challenges

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doctors, Males, Lawyer

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

  Wole Soyinka

  Atmosphere, Culture, Grew Up

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• With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Grandparent, Temptation, Listening

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• My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

  Steven Spielberg

  Jurassic Park, Leviathan, Parks

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• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Hands, Symphony

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• I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Aunt, House, Six

  "The Boss is back". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.nbcnews.com. April 16, 2003.

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• I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.

  Danielle Steel

  Father, Car, Grew Up

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• I grew up in a happy household.

  Kristen Stewart

  Grew Up, Household

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

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cartoon, Adults, Grew Up

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• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Views

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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