Grew Quotes - Page 28

• Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.

  Anna Kendrick

  Humble, Ambition, Humility

  "Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Years, America

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• I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

  James McAvoy

  Hero, Fire, Play

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• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  Kate Bosworth

  Looks, Towns, Different

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• I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

  Rihanna

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  "Vicky Pryce and Isabel Oakeshott's horrible parody of female friendship" by Sarah Ditum, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I grew up in a household without a lot of problems and they have been very supportive from day one

  Mario Lopez

  Supportive, Problem, Grew Up

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• It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader got me started on a number of writers, including Hemingway.

  Lee Pace

  Reading, College, Numbers

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• I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

  Zachary Levi

  Believe, Hard Times, Hands

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

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• Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, People, Germany

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• I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

  Julie Gonzalo

  Grew Up

  "Julie Gonzalo Talks DALLAS, Working with the Original Cast, and Her Favorite Fights This Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand, but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta, yes, but not a lot of it.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Italian, People, Pasta

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

  Armie Hammer

  Home, School, Islands

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

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• I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Mother, Book, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I was born in Louisiana, but I grew up in South Carolina, which both are definitely very different than LA, but I miss the thunderstorms.

  Ashley Scott

  Missing, South Carolina, Different

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• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  Rachael Harris

  Ohio, Feelings, Towns

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

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• I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

  John Stamos

  Beach, Boys, Body

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• My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

  Loni Anderson

  Hands, My Sister, Grew Up

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• I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.

  Guy Pearce

  Done, Would Be, Kind

  "Profile and Interview: Guy Pearce". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. June, 2003.

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• I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

  Connie Britton

  Mother, Teacher, Singing

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

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• I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

  Sandra Oh

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Sandra Oh moves from 'Sideways' to TV". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. March 23, 2005.

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• I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.

  Sandra Oh

  Hair, Young, Kink

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• I grew up understanding the pros and cons of what you're getting into and knowing what comes with your job. I like to keep my private life private, and then work is work. I feel so far I've had a really good balance with that.

  Lily Collins

  Jobs, Knowing, Understanding

  "Lily Collins Feels The 'Momentum' Going Into 2011". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Big brows weren’t the look in L.A., where I grew up. But my mom instilled in me that it’s the quirky things that make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Mom, Quirky

  "From Her Spice Girls Obsession To Her Signature Eyebrows, Get To Know Hollywood Darling Lily Collins!". Interview with Laren Brown, www.glamour.com. August 13, 2012.

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• I am not a romantic leading man anymore so I don't need to nurture that public image anymore. I can talk about it now because I'm not afraid anymore . . . When I grew up, being gay, being sissy or anything like that, was verboten. I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely, and had to hide it and became 'Perfect Richard, All-American Boy' as a place to hide.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Gay, Men, Boys

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