Grew Quotes - Page 34

• My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.

  Howard Stern

  Family, Mother, Long

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• As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

  Michelle Shocked

  Real, Army, Identity

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• I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Gossip, Age, Mouths

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• I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

  Anna Kendrick

  Crazy, People, Age

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• I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

  Diane Lane

  Horse, Drawing, Age

  "Diane Lane Talks Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Cutting, Tree

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• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Rex Stout

  Ideas, Depth, Shallow

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• Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of
  his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were
  horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases
  above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down--from high flat temples--in a point on
  his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Eye, Hair, Yellow

  1930 Of Sam Spade. The Maltese Falcon,'Spade and Archer'.

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• The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

  Italo Calvino

  Mistake, Cutting, Ideas

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• I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.

  Wyclef Jean

  Father, Parent, Grew Up

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• I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

  KT Tunstall

  Knowing, Imagination, Different

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• First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

  Bill Condon

  Knowing, People, Mexican

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• What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith. We're encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we're being told - or what we grew up believing - and we're allowed to ask whether we're hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it. If our beliefs aren't supported by the evidence, then we're encouraged to alter our beliefs.

  Gary Taubes

  Believe, Taken, Law

  Gary Taubes (2010). “Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It”, p.16, Anchor

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• I grew up listening to old soul

  Erykah Badu

  Soul, Listening, Grew Up

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• I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

  George Duke

  Years, Together, Three

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• I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Father, Class, Inheritance

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• Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

  Diane Nash

  Emotional, Chicago, Stories

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• Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

  Alistair Cooke

  Greek, Hollywood, Factories

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• I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

  Jessica Hahn

  Girl, New York, Window

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• But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Children, Struggle, Taken

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionist". Book by Peter Kropotkin. Part 4, Section 3, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1899.

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• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  Barry Commoner

  Simple, Environmental Quality, Entering

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Growing Up, Artist, Years

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• When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.

  Nicki Minaj

  Sex, Rapper, Female

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• I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Roulette, Dice, Grew Up

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