Grew Quotes - Page 5

• I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Cities, Southern

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• That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  Eric Davis

  Kissing, Negativity, Atmosphere

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

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• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

  Attitude, Games, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Thinking, Imagination

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• I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Motivation, Hero, Opportunity

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• I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

  Junot Diaz

  Shadow, Saws, Grew Up

  "Old friends Junot Díaz and Francisco Goldman talk shop". Interview with Miwa Messer, www.csmonitor.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

  Junot Diaz

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dust, Poverty, Spirit

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

  Janice Dickinson

  Ballet, Crafts, Study

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• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  Vin Diesel

  People, Kind, Grew Up

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. March 31, 2003.

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• I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

  Matt Dillon

  Dad, White, Wagons

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

  David Duchovny

  Kids, Manhattan, World

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• I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

  Josh Duhamel

  Men, Hiking, Backyards

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• A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

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• Well, when I moved to L.A. at 17, I had just come out of high school. I grew up and went to public school in Boston.

  Eliza Dushku

  School, Boston, Grew Up

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2009.

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• I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Illinois, Grew Up, States

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• I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Mother, Aunt, Kitchen

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• I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

  Steve Earle

  Hippie, Counter Culture, Grew Up

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• Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

  Steve Earle

  Song, School, Kids

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• I grew up in a Navy family.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Navy, Grew Up

  "Elizabeth Edwards answers the real questions so many have". "Larry King Live", latimesblogs.latimes.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.

  Zac Efron

  Hairspray, Grew Up, Amanda

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• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  Zac Efron

  Sports, Moving, Dancing

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• Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

  Dave Eggers

  People, Expectations, Littles

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