Grew Quotes - Page 32

• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  Taylor Dane

  Thinking, People, Black

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• Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

  Janet Flanner

  Baby, War, Fighting

  Janet Flanner (1985). “Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend”, Random House (NY)

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• They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Mind, Links

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• I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

  John Hume

  Example, Discrimination, Grew Up

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way

  Lucinda Williams

  Independent, Ideas, People

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• People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

  Pete Sampras

  People, Tennis, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

  George McGovern

  Boys, Grew Up, South Dakota

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• I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

  Christopher Durang

  Theatre, Grew Up

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• What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, People, Gourmet

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• The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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• I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

  Maurice Sendak

  House, Mourning, Grew Up

  "'Where the Wild Things Are:' The Psychology Behind Maurice Sendak's Classic" by Mikaela Conley, abcnews.go.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  Lars von Trier

  Strong, Home, Emotion

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• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

  Alan Furst

  Reading, Degrees, Eric

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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• In times when nothing stood
  but worsened, or grew strange,
  there was one constant good:
  she did not change.

  Philip Larkin

  Strange, Constant

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!

  Norah Jones

  Texas, Classical Music, Indian

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• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  Carlton Fisk

  Sports, Play, Turmoil

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• I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.

  Chris Paul

  Football, Nba, Games

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 3, 2005.

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• I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Influence, Grew Up

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• I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Christmas, Mom, Rain

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• I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Growing Up, Father, Shoes

  “The Notorious Blago” by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 11, 2010.

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

  Robert Ballard

  Friendship, Ocean, Kids

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• I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.

  Curtis Stone

  Home, Love Is, Garden

  Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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