Grew Quotes - Page 30

• I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Important, Way, Lifestyle

  "Hollywood’s hottest husband is Chris O’Donnell, see poll" by Cathy Heys, www.irishcentral.com. May 19, 2010.

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• I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

  Petra Nemcova

  Dream, Freedom Of Speech, Communism

  "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work.

  Morgan Brittany

  Growing Up, Children, Teenager

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• I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

  Gary Cole

  Fear, Real, Apocalypse

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• I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.

  Emily Watson

  Book, Television, Grew Up

  "Making waves" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2000.

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• I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

  Lily Tomlin

  Mean, Cowboy, Nurse

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• I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

  John Lone

  Mother, Father, Home

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

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• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

  John Lone

  Art, Age, Identity

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• I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

  John Lone

  Mother, Insecure, Thinking

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• I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

  Sean William Scott

  Kindness, Nice, Shopping

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• I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence.

  Isabel Lucas

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Couple, Blow, Years

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  Navid Negahban

  War, Impact, Iran

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• I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

  Navid Negahban

  Inspired, Grew Up, Busters

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• I was born in Orange, California and I grew up in Huntington Beach. I started skateboarding when I was five and continued to do so off and on over the years.

  Jason Lee

  Beach, Years, California

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. October 2, 2000.

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• I grew up in the early '70s in New England.

  Thurston Moore

  England, Grew Up, New England

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• I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

  Molly Sims

  Grew Up

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• The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.

  Hideaki Anno

  Country, Children, Dirty

  "Let’s Die Together". www.theatlantic.com. May, 2007.

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• For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s

  Will Estes

  Baby, Grew Up, 80s

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• Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.

  Riley Keough

  Thinking, Important, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  Patrick Stewart

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

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• Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  Isaac Hayes

  Real, Opportunity, Village

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

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• The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Challenges, Germany

  "To Save America". Book by Newt Gingrich, www.today.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music.

  Ali Hewson

  Taken, Long, Grew Up

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• The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.

  Jonah Peretti

  People, Needs, News

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